-- Head coach of the men's heavyweight crew team
Dave Vogel, "'It's the Kentucky Derby on Water,'" New Haven Register, June 2, 2002.
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"Even when the president receives his plans from the military, he lacks the authority to execute them. The Constitution makes him commander in chief, but only Congress can declare war."
-- Sterling Professor of Law & Political Science
Bruce Ackerman in his article "Bush Must Avoid Shortcuts on Road to War; President Should Not Try to Sidestep Congress In Any Action Against Iraq," latimes.com, May 31, 2002.
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"When they were exposed to high-intensity stress, [Green Berets] seemed to release much more norepinephrine and neuropeptide Y, and after stress was over, they came back to base line. They sort of cooled off quickly and came back to where they started from, whereas the other groups of soldiers that we studied were depleted."
-- Resident in psychiatry Charles A. Morgan, "New Study On How Special Forces Soldiers Cope With the Kinds of Stress They Might Experience On the Battlefield," "Morning Edition," National Public Radio, May 21, 2002.
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"It is a truth universally acknowledged that as individuals become more successful, more established and older, they generally become more attached to a socio-economic order that rewards success. It is unusual and extraordinary, therefore, for an individual, while living comfortably, to grow increasingly critical of the existing order."
-- J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History Paul Kennedy in his review of Kevin Phillips' "Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich," "The Power Elite," latimes.com, May 19, 2002.
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"Astute observational skills are usually acquired only after about five years of being in medical practice. Suddenly, all of the accumulated experience leads doctors to see things they have not been taught before. They become terrific observers."
-- Professor of dermatology Dr. Irwin Braverman about a course to hone medical students' observational skills through artworks, "Yale's Life-or-Death Course in Art Criticism," The New York Times, May 19, 2002.
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"Notice the similarity between falling asleep and thinking creatively -- no matter how hard you try, you cannot force yourself to do either. You cannot make yourself fall asleep by concentrating. To fall asleep, you must 'un-concentrate.'"
-- Professor of computer science David Gelernter in his article "Thinking Computers Must Hallucinate, Too," The Straits Times (Singapore), June 8, 2002.
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"Most criminal defense lawyers believe if your alibi is not strong, it's better not to offer it at all. The folklore -- because no one knows what a jury will do -- is that if your alibi is weak, the jury rejects that and they will kind of flop over toward guilty."
-- Professor of law Steven Duke, "Lawyers Praise State's Case," The Hartford Courant, June 8, 2002.
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"The average child sees 10,000 food advertisements per year, 95 percent of them for fast food, soft drinks, candy and sugared cereals -- all high-profit and nutrition-poor products. Marketing campaigns link fast food and soft drinks to toys, games, collectibles, movies and popular personalities. Soft-drink companies have established lucrative contracts with cash-strapped school districts tying financial incentives to sales. By contrast, the entire federal budget for nutrition education is equal to one-fifth of the advertising costs for Altoids mints."
-- Director of the Center for Eating & Weight Disorders Dr. Kelly Brownell and David S. Ludwig in their article "Fighting Obesity and the Food Lobby," washingtonpost.com, June 8, 2002.
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"I tell my students that the defenders of business-as-usual on climate change began telling us 20 years ago that concern about global warming was not scientifically justified. Then, a decade ago, they said yes, concern is justified, but we have ample time to prevent it. Now, a decade later, they are saying it is too late to prevent major climate change, and we have no choice but to adapt to it."
-- Dean of the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies James Gustave Speth in his letter to the editor, The New York Times, June 9, 2002.
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"You have to see that your patients may have kids running around handing pills to their dolls, and that may be why the patient keeps forgetting to take her medicine. In this day and age, when every doctor is burning out and questioning why they went into medicine, you realize the importance of these things."
-- Professor of internal medicine Dr. Margaret Bia, "House Calls: How Physicians Heal Themselves," The New York Times, June 4, 2002.
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"Body scans can deliver a dose of radiation a hundred times more powerful than a chest X-ray. Such a dose may be justified if a doctor suspects a deadly cancer, but it's unwise for the average patient. It's easy to understand the attraction of body scans for otherwise healthy people. But scans work best to zero in on a specific condition in a patient. They were not designed to soothe the worried well."
-- Dean of the School of Medicine Dr. David Kessler in his commentary, "Use of Full-Body Scans By Healthy People," "Morning Edition," National Public Radio, June 4, 2002.
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"At the end of the day, the first thing you have to learn if you're a serious writer is how much stuff you have to throw out . . . you just have to come to grips with that."
-- Professor of Spanish & Portuguese Maria Rosa Menocal, "Yale Prof's Book Details Era of Religious Unity," Connecticut Post, May 26, 2002.
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"The closer one gets to their O2 max, the more work they are doing without the equivalent of oxygen intake. They literally run out of oxygen. Great athletes can't survive more than a couple of minutes at this level. The trick is to pace yourself where you can sustain an even amount of work effective for the race and have enough anaerobic reserve remaining for when you make your final sprint."
-- Chief of athletic medicine at University Health Services Dr. Barry Goldberg about the physical strain on crew teams, "20 Grueling Minutes; Yale-Harvard Regatta Can Intimidate The Best," New Haven Register, June 6, 2002.
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"No tool will need to be handed to a robot by a scrub nurse. There's not a lot of thinking in handing an instrument to a robot -- that job doesn't have to be done by a person."
-- Professor of surgery Dr. Richard M. Satava on the changes that will occur in operating rooms during robot-assisted surgery, "Restoring the Human Touch to Remote-Controlled Surgery," The New York Times, May 30, 2002.
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"For several years now, people were afraid to challenge what they didn't understand. It's only since October, or really since January, that we've seen the unraveling."
-- Associate dean of the Yale School of Management Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, "Tyco Chief Out As Tax Inquiry Picks Up Speed," The New York Times, June 4, 2002.
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"Weirdest of all were the arms. They lay in rows on two long tables, each hooked up to its own IV bag, each bag full of clearish red liquid. No hand, no upper arm, just disembodied forearms offering themselves up, scored with thousands of tiny holes from students past. When you poked them properly, it seemed, they bled accurately."
-- Student at the School of Medicine Jenny Blair describing a class in which medical students learned to draw blood in her article "The First Draw," Northeast Magazine, June 2, 2002.
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"As weapons of mass destruction increase, the cost of foolishness increases exponentially."
-- IBM Professor of Psychology & Education Robert J. Sternberg, "Yale Prof Shines a Light on Stupidity," New Haven Register, May 26, 2002.
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"You're not just an American historian but an American labor historian, and not just an American labor historian but an American labor historian of the lumber industry, and not just an American labor historian of the lumber industry but of the lumber industry in Minnesota."
-- Larned Professor Emeritus of History Gaddis Smith about increasing specialization in academia, "Love Songs to America," U.S. News & World Report, June 10, 2002.
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"In short, the government must think about an alert's effect on perpetrators as well as potential victims. The trade-off is between the expected casualties in an event the government anticipates and prepares for without warning the public, and the casualties that will occur in an event displaced elsewhere because of an alert. Given this principle, we should not have specific terror alerts."
-- William N. & Marie A. Beach Professor of Management Sciences Edward H. Kaplan and Frederic D. Wolfe Professor of Economics & Management Sharon M. Oster in their article "Terrorism Alerts: Maybe Ignorance Really is Bliss," USA Today, June 5, 2002.
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"China helped to create the possibility of a nuclear showdown in South Asia by its financial and technical aid to Pakistan over many years. It now fears such a conflict."
-- Director of publications at the Center for the Study of Globalization Nayan Chanda in his article "Risks And Opportunities For China; Still Pakistian's Ally," International Herald Tribune, May 31, 2002.
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"Before the Internet era, the elements of an organization had to be in one physical place and demanded a command-and-control structure. The organization of the future is more like a web than it is like a kingdom."
-- Dean of the Yale School of Management Jeffrey E. Garten, "Inside Bush's Big Plan; Is His New Department of Homeland Security a Bold Solution or Just a Big Mess?" Time, June 17, 2002.
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