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"If we focus exclusively on improving disciplinary knowledge and pedagogy, we will raise more test
scores here and there, but we will continue to have
far too many underachieving students."
-- Dr. James P. Comer, the Maurice Falk Professor
of Child Psychiatry, in his article "Making Schools
of Education Bridges to Better Learning,"
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Jan. 24, 2003.
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"These used to be all-male schools. Now, you have half as many males, twice as many sports and the same enrollment. There's an astronomical difference."
-- Jack Siedlecki, head football coach, about how coeducation has impacted men's sports at Ivy League schools, "A New School of Thought; At Elite Colleges, Role of Sports
is Reexamined," Boston Sunday Globe,
Jan. 12, 2003.
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"[Tolerance] is at least in part the byproduct of a tremendous sense of security -- political as well as religious and military."
-- Jaroslav Pelikan, Sterling Professor Emeritus of History, "The Burden of Tolerance In a World of Division," The New York Times, Dec. 29, 2002.
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"I think it is unfair to ask companies to get out ahead of their customers. They have got to make money. They have a fiduciary responsibility, and the market would punish them if they didn't meet it. But companies should constantly be asking themselves, 'How do we design processes and make products that are more environmentally benign? Are the things that everybody is talking about worthy of investment?'"
-- Reid Lifset, associate director of the Environment Management Program at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, about calls to produce more "green" products, "Gang Green," Time, Jan. 13, 2003.
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"I think it's impossible for the [slave reparations] case to succeed unless Congress changes the law to facilitate these kinds of claims, and even then, they would be difficult to sustain. They would have to change the statute of limitations and the standard of proof."
-- Peter Schuck, the Simeon E. Baldwin Professor of Law, "Women Want Reparations For Slavery; Two From Dallas Announced Plans to File Lawsuit Against Three Companies Today," Austin American Statesman, Jan. 21, 2003.
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"Today, when people look at the ruins in Peru, it's easy to forget the sort of complexity that existed in Inca times."
-- Richard L. Burger, professor of anthropology, "A New Take on Machu Picchu," Connecticut Post, Jan. 23, 2003.
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"People don't give RNA enough credit. It was supposed to be incapable of doing these exotic functions. Proteins are supposed to be the complex molecules, not RNA."
-- Ronald R. Breaker, associate professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology, "3-D RNA Folds and Molds Like a Key for a Specialized Work," The New York Times, Jan. 21, 2003.
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"By making quantum computers, we'll find out more about quantum mechanics."
-- Michel Devoret, professor of physics and applied physics, "Quantum Leap; Physicists Devise Superconducting Artificial Atom," New Haven Register, Jan. 21, 2003.
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"The thing about having a child die -- it seems so unnatural. When you bury a child, it seems as though the world has gone wrong."
-- Dr. Michael Rowe, associate clinical professor of psychiatry, about his own experience losing a child, "A World Gone Wrong; Father Seeks Meaning In His Late Son's Medical Struggle Through Book," New Haven Register, Jan. 7, 2003.
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"Tax cuts in America, even if they stimulate the economy, are not nearly enough to offset stalled growth around the world."
-- Jeffrey E. Garten, dean of the Yale School of Management, in his article "America Must Lead the World Economy," Financial Times (London), Jan. 30, 2003.
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"I often tell cancer patients the idea is to stay here and be as comfortable as possible and wait for the next advance to come along."
-- Dr. Vincent T. DeVita Jr., director of the Yale Cancer Center, on the use of new cancer drugs that slow, but do not cure, the disease, "From Killer to Chronic Disease: Drugs Redefine Cancer for Many," The Washington Post, Jan. 29, 2003.
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"Four years ago, the tobacco industry agreed to pay $246 billion in installments over the next 25 years to the states. ... The settlement placed states in a precarious position from the start. Because future payments will be adjusted upward or downward according to cigarette consumption, the states will have less incentive to invest in tobacco control over time."
-- Rahul Rajkumar, student at the Law School and School of Medicine, and Dr. Cary P. Gross, assistant professor of internal medicine, in their article "Tobacco-Controlled Dollars Went To Everything But," The Hartford Courant, Dec. 31, 2002.
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"It's pretty remarkable. The transformation is pretty startling. One minute you're looking out your bay window at your neighbor's back yard, and the next you're watching Tom Cruise and 'Top Gun.'"
-- Samuel Isenstadt, assistant professor of the history of art and assistant professor of architecture, about the invention of windows that double as a television screen, "Motion-Picture Windows: Soon on a Wall Near You?; The Pane People Try Double-Duty Design," The Washington Post, Jan. 21, 2003.
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"Perhaps it is basic to our national character, this habit of giving ourselves instructions for living right. Benjamin Franklin, who has long stood as the exemplar of everything good and bad about Americans, formulated some detailed instructions for himself and his country that are still worth considering. ... He sums it up in a list of 13 virtues: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity and humility."
-- Edmund S. Morgan, Sterling Professor Emeritus of History, in his op-ed article "Poor Richard's New Year," The New York Times, Dec. 31, 2002.
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"The awkward reality remains that, given fears of revolutionary Iran, [Saddam] Hussein was relatively assured that the Reagan administration and the Persian Gulf princes would countenance his methods of war against Iran, even when those methods transgressed international law. When such benevolence was withdrawn, as it was during the gulf war, Mr. Hussein's impressive arsenal of chemical and biological weapons remained in the warehouses. His history of aggression demonstrates that he is prone to use weapons of mass destruction only against those who cannot respond in kind."
-- Ray Takeyh, fellow in international security studies, in his article "Use Winning Strategy From Cold War on Iraq," The Baltimore Sun, Jan. 23, 2003.
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"[T]he White House has a little bit of a problem here. If they choose a nominee who is out there with a published record of opposing Roe v. Wade or certain other decisions that are currently the law, then there is going to be more of a fight over it. So they may look for a nominee who isn't quite so explicitly out there opposing decisions like Roe v. Wade, but if they choose somebody like that, then they can't be sure how that justice will rule in the future, so there is a little bit of being caught between a rock and a hard place."
-- Jed Rubenfeld, the Robert R. Slaughter Professor of Law, "Tough Call: How Loose is the Balance in the Supreme Court?" "Market Call," CNNfn, Jan. 23, 2003.
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"People have gotten used to the idea of secret diplomacy."
-- John Lewis Gaddis, the Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military & Naval History, "Secret Diplomacy: Rules of the Road," The New York Times, Jan. 19, 2003.
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