-- Clinical professor of obstetrics & gynecology Dr. Mary Jane Minkin, "Body and Mind: Ovaries Have a Life of Their Own," ft.com, Aug. 11, 2001.
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"It's not that the court loves the states. It's that the justices hate Congress and love themselves even more. To them, the court really is supreme."
-- Southmayd Professor of Law Akhil Reed Amar, "Fla. Recount Dominated High Court's Term," USA Today, June 29, 2001.
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"We don't take care of our mothers. Pregnant women are revered, but once you have the baby, all the focus is on the baby."
-- Assistant professor of psychiatry and obstetrics & gynecology Dr. Cynthia Neill Epperson, "When Moms Need Help; Postpartum Disorders Often Suffered Quietly," The Hartford Courant, July 1, 2001.
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"We sometimes forget that the basics of information management don't change. We think and talk and listen; we read and write and look at pictures. That was the essence of information management in the 13th century, and it still is today. Computers can put us in touch with the world and, more important, with ourselves."
-- Professor of computer science David Gelernter, "Selling a Vision of the Future Beyond Folders," The New York Times, July 2, 2001.
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"In the space of a little more than a decade, AIDS rose in the United States from an unknown disease to the leading cause of death for young men and young women in this country."
-- Chair of the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health Dr. Michael Merson, "Doctors, Researchers Race Against Mutating Virus," Connecticut Post, July 1, 2001.
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"That's the whole beauty of a pacemaker. It's like having paramedics with you 24/7."
-- Associate professor of internal medicine, cardiology and pediatrics Dr. Lynda Rosenfeld, "Yale Doctors Praise Procedure," Connecticut Post, July 1, 2001.
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"We can't make parents do anything. You can motivate and encourage them easier when it is clear that everybody is working together to make a difference."
-- Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry Dr. James Comer, "Plan Holds Pupils, Teachers, Parents All Accountable," NewHavenRegister.com, July 5, 2001.
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"The aspiration of the world after World War II was for some form of universal jurisdiction for a limited number of crimes, including genocide. But it is only in the decade of the 1990's that this aspiration has been given some substance, and Mr. Milosevic's trial is the culmination."
-- Professor of law Owen Fiss, "At Arraignment, Milosevic Scorns His U.N. Accusers," The New York Times, July 4, 2001.
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"In the past 100 years, work was organized with the assumption that there was a full-time worker -- a wife -- in the household. Our model worker is a worker and a half."
-- Professor of law Judith Resnik, "Sexism, Family Demands Still Make It Hard For More Women to Get to the Top of the Legal Profession," New Haven Register, July 8, 2001.
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"[I]f there is anything approaching a common currency throughout the black world, it is music. For decades, African, African-American and Afro-Caribbean music have borrowed freely from one another, a process often closely tied to issues of culture, politics and identity."
-- Assistant professor of music Michael Veal in his op-ed essay "African Music and African-American Audiences," The New York Times, July 8, 2001.
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"[Parents] don't want to use their precious time to be a bad guy. It isn't setting limits that makes you an enemy; it's really leaving your children to their own impulses that's what leaves you an enemy. So, to say 'No' is a really loving thing."
-- Clinical professor of psychiatry Dr. Kyle Pruett, "'Fatherneed' Author Dr. Kyle Pruett Talks About Fathers Balancing Role as Breadwinner and Involving Themselves in Raising Their Children," "The Early Show," July 12, 2001.
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"Embryonic stem cells are the professors. I need them to teach me how to manipulate the adult cells."
-- Associate professor of laboratory medicine and pathology Diane Krause, "Stem Cell Research Controversy Deepens as Bush Considers Ban on Federal Funding: Scientists Press Case for Work on Embryo Cells," Financial Times (London), July 13, 2001.
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"Three million Polish Jews perished in the Holocaust; three million non-Jewish citizens of Poland also perished during the war."
-- Assistant professor of history Timothy Snyder in his letter to the editor "Jedwabne Massacre: A Search for Healing," The New York Times, July 16, 2001.
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"If you had extrapolated from 1950s technology, we'd all have nuclear-powered toasters instead of PCs on our desks."
-- Harold Hodgkinson Professor of Engineering & Applied Science Mark Reed, "A Big Idea From the Realm of the Intensely Tiny: Nanotechnology Could Mean Denser Hard Drives, Smaller Chips, Better Medicine," Forbes, July 23, 2001.
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"Ballot secrecy was adopted toward the end of the nineteenth century to deter political corruption by disrupting the economics of vote buying. That made it much more difficult for a candidate to know if, at the end of the day, the voters he paid had actually voted for him. In much the same way, we could use an anonymous 'donation booth' to restrict campaign finance corruption."
-- William K. Townsend Professor of Law Ian Ayres in his article "An Easy Fix for Campaign Finance," The Washington Times, July 15, 2001.
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"The forces that have increased flows of money, goods, services and information around the globe and helped create growth are now working to make the economic downtown deeper and more widespread."
-- Dean of the Yale School of Management Jeffrey E. Garten in his op-ed essay "Free Trade Has to Be Managed," The New York Times, July 18, 2001.
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"People think math has to be taught in a rigorous way, but studies show how it can be taught through games. Very young children learn that way really well."
-- Senior research scientist at the Child Study Center Dorothy Singer, "How to Prevent Brian Drain," Connecticut Post, July 15, 2001.
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"There aren't really haunted houses, there are haunted people. As these people travel from house to house, the haunting phenomenon follows them."
-- Assistant professor of neurology Dr. Steven Novella, "More Americans Believing in Ghosts," The Associated Press, July 21, 2001.
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"People can't be relied on to set money aside unless it is taken from them before they get their paycheck."
-- Professor of economics John Rust, "Super Start, But Savings Vital Too," The Daily News (New Plymouth), July 16, 2001.
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"We've all heard these horror stories of parents who are told, 'If you don't medicate your child, he can't be in the classroom.' You never hear the school say, 'If you don't take the damn appendix out, this kid has a bad outcome.' You hear, 'Your kid has a stomach ache. Take him to the doctor.'"
-- Assistant professor of psychiatry Dr. Andres Martin, "Connecticut Bars Teachers, School Officials From Recommending Ritalin for Students," The Wall Street Journal, July 17, 2001.
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"There is an increasing understanding on the part of organizations that paying attention to their employees' emotional skills is critical for workplace effectiveness. This is particularly so as the environment gets more fast-paced, and competitive, and thus the ability to coordinate with others becomes even more critical."
-- Associate professor at the Yale School of Management Sigal Barsade, "Learning to Love Criticism," Connecticut Post, July 15, 2001.
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"Our Supreme Court long ago banned the execution of 15-year-olds, so why allow the execution of adults with the minds of 10-year-olds?"
-- Gerard C. & Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh, "Death Penalty Ban Sought for Retarded," July 17, 2001.
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"Instead of trying to mobilize people to vote, [the media has] tried to push people towards participation in the actual process by getting them involved in government, like through grass-roots campaigns."
-- Assistant professor of political science John Lapinski, "The Next Generation: Young Adults, Some Just Out of High School, Jump Into Politics," The New York Times, July 22, 2001.
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"[T]he members of the G-7 are really walking on eggshells because they know the new American administration, unlike the previous one, really does not want a wide-spanning role for the IMF [International Monetary Fund], or the super-nationals."
-- Adjunct professor at the Yale School of Management David De Rosa, "G-8 Conference Updates," CNNfn Street Sweep, July 23, 2001.
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