"We are no happier than we were when our incomes were one-third of what they are now, back in 1948."
-- Professor Emeritus of Political Science Robert E. Lane, "Nation's Richer, Not Necessarily Happier," New Haven Register, Sept. 6, 2000.
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"If we encouraged people to eat more fruits and vegetables and to eat less junk food, a lot of the battle [to promote good nutrition] might be won."
-- Director of the Center for Eating & Weight Disorders Kelly Brownell, "The Food Pyramid: Does It Miss the Point?" The Los Angeles Times, Sept. 1, 2000.
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"I'm not an expert in brain research, but I'm not so clear that there is such evidence that it is important to introduce rigorous things to children at young ages. Young children are very imaginative. We don't know the role of having time to do creative play has in their later years."
-- Lecturer at the Child Study Center Virginia Shiller, "When to Put a Child in School Debated," The Associated Press and elsewhere, Sept. 7, 2000.
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"When I first started [research on taste], I thought food preferences were all cultural, all learned, that nothing sensory would matter. I couldn't have been more wrong. There's a lot of basic biology driving our food preferences that we aren't aware of."
-- Professor of surgery, otolaryngology and epidemiology Linda Bartoshuk, "Sniffing Out Genes' Role in Our Senses of Taste and Smell," Los Angeles Times, Aug. 27, 2000.
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"The cases [Law School] students read are meant to introduce them to the fundamental principles of the subject, but the cases that are selected for study are cases that present the most excruciatingly difficult questions. It doesn't help to give them easy cases. They get pushed out to the frontier in every class they take."
-- Dean of the Law School Anthony T. Kronman, "A J-School Manifesto," Columbia Journalism Review, Sept./Oct. 2000.
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"Every now and then, the Ministry of Agriculture calls me up and says, 'Why aren't you guys using more monkeys?'"
-- Professor of psychiatry and neurosurgery Dr. D. Eugene Redmond, about Yale's biomedical research facility, "St. Kitts Struggles to Reduce a Centuries-Old Monkey Glut," Los Angeles Times, Sept. 18, 2000.
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"[Parents should] say 'Look -- this isn't real. In real life there are consequences if you hit each other -- blood, death, hurting.'"
-- Visiting research scientist (Psychology) Dorothy Singer, "In Wired World, TV Still Has Grip on Kids," Los Angeles Times, Sept. 19, 2000.
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"To accompany the dying is to find something of the divine within ourselves."
-- Clinical professor of surgery Dr. Sherwin B. Nuland about Bill Moyers's PBS special 'On Our Own Terms,' "A Witness to the Final Journey," The New York Times, Sept. 10, 2000.
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"The marijuana question raises two issues: the value of marijuana as a medicine and the right to use marijuana for simple recreation. Some of us might believe that those who want to exercise their right to smoke for any reason use the medical marijuana issue to achieve adoption of laws that loosen controls at the state level."
-- Professor of the history of medicine and child psychiatry Dr. David F. Musto, in his article "Marijuana Laws Might Be Going Up in Smoke," New Haven Register, Sept. 13, 2000.
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"The desire to shrink circuits has always been my quest. What's the ultimate? . . . The idea is, if you can make molecules that act as electronic devices, that's about the ultimate."
-- Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering Mark Reed, "Let's Get Small," New Haven Register, Sept. 14, 2000.
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"The critical things are patient and doctor education, recognizing the symptoms [of ovarian cancer], having pelvic exams with vaginal ultrasound, and a CAT scan if necessary."
-- Chair of the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology Dr. Peter E. Schwartz, "Yale Conference to Focus on Ovarian Cancer," New Haven Register, Sept. 16, 2000.
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"Behaviors of injectors vary tremendously. Some injectors rapidly discard syringes when they are done, mostly out of fear of being spotted by police. Improperly discarded syringes can be reused and can transmit the virus."
-- Associate professor of epidemiology & public health Dr. Robert Heimer, "HIV Dies in Warm Syringes," Dayton Daily News and elsewhere, Sept. 11, 2000.
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"I visited the Nelson Mandela refugee camp last January. Most Americans cannot imagine the poverty of this community."
-- Chaplain of the University The Rev. Frederick J. Streets in his letter to the editor, "The Shame of Colombia," The New York Times, Sept. 12, 2000.
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"The bread that was cast to the water is now coming back. The wave of immigrant Pentecostals to the U.S. is the result of successful missionary efforts by North American Christians."
-- Assistant professor of theology Gilbert Bond, "Religion Revives the Bronx," The Washington Post, Sept. 12, 2000.
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"I couldn't believe people [in Boston] could be so incredibly surly, dour and grim."
-- Professor of women's & gender studies and psychology Marianne LaFrance, "No Tea Party in Boston," The Evening Standard (London), Sept. 13, 2000.
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"Our strength was interfaith understanding, grappling with critical philosophical issues that seemed to undermine theology."
-- Professor of theological ethics David Ogletree, "For Gore, Baptist Worship Mixes with Environmental Spirituality," The Associated Press and elsewhere, July 7, 2000.
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