Yale Bulletin and Calendar

March 7, 2003|Volume 31, Number 21|Two-Week Issue

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"The art of diagnosis looks a lot like profiling. Doctors constantly ask: Is this more common in men or women? Whites or blacks? The young or the old? In this way a doctor narrows the possible cause of a given illness."

-- Dr. Lisa Sanders, clinical instructor in internal medicine, in her article "What Does a Doctor Do When the Patient Profile Says One Thing and the Tests Say Another?" The New York Times Magazine, Feb. 16, 2003.

"I think the American people are really very, very badly prepared for the possible price tag [of a war with Iraq]. ... The total cost of that is somewhere between a thousand and $20,000 a household."

-- William D. Nordhaus, Sterling Professor of Economics, "What War With Iraq Will Cost the American Taxpayer," NBC Today, Feb. 25, 2003.

"We have to eat a healthy diet. One of the factors is how foods taste, because the way they taste affects whether you like them or not, which affects your diet, which affects all kinds of health risks."

-- Linda M. Bartoshuk, professor of surgery (otolaryngology) & professor of psychology, "Cancer Risk Linked to Tastebuds," Health Media Group Media Watch Services, Feb. 17, 2003.

"We can't always be a Bouchet, regardless of what our color is. If there ever is a dream, it should be doing what you really want to do."

-- Curtis L. Patton, head of the division of epidemiology of microbial diseases, about Edward Bouchet, the first African-American graduate of Yale College and the first in the nation to earn a Ph.D. (also from Yale), "African-American Physicist Celebrated," New Haven Register, Feb. 26, 2003.

"Unhealthy food ... is everywhere 24 hours a day, and very inexpensive. If you arrived here from Mars, knowing only that, you would expect to find an obese society."

-- Dr. Kelly Brownell, director of the Center for Eating and Weight Disorders, "Unhealthy Food Is Everywhere 24 Hours a Day, And Very Inexpensive," Financial Times (London), Feb. 18, 2003.

"I'm basically an atheist -- a Calvinist atheist. I believe in original sin. I always believed that if there is anything horrible that human beings are capable of, sooner or later they are going to do it."

-- Edmund S. Morgan, Sterling Professor Emeritus of History, "With 'Franklin,' He Continues a Storied Career," The Boston Globe, Feb. 24, 2003.

"In criminal justice, sometimes the process is the punishment."

-- Stephen B. Bright, visiting lecturer at the Law School, "Group Combats Inmate Abuse," New Haven Register, Feb. 27, 2003.

"Substitute 'foam falling off and hitting the tiles' for 'O-rings' and 'erosion.' Could these words be relevant? We don't quite know yet. But there's an echo here."

-- Edward Tufte, professor emeritus of political science, computer science and statistics, and senior critic in graphic design, about parallels between the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters, "NASA Had Planned Changes on Shuttle Foam," The New York Times, Feb. 21, 2003.

"Most brain damaged people are non-violent and most people with a serious mental illness are not violent either."

-- Dr. Dorothy Otnow Lewis, clinical professor of psychiatry, "The Pleasure Principle; What Do Lovers and Drug Addicts Have in Common?" The Independent (London), Feb. 17, 2003.

T H I SW E E K ' SS T O R I E S

Second phase of Broadway revitalization now underway

Kagan awarded National Humanities Medal

Scholarship recognizes vital role of diversity in education

'Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day'

Former Yale provost, dean and scholar Georges May dies

Forum explores strategies for 'Teaching the Tough Stuff'

Yale Rep show offers new and old twists on Shakespeare's . . .

Mapping of peptide may lead to ways of regulating appetite . . .

Exhibit features work by alumnus Joshua Meyer

Goldman-Rakic talk will benefit Fellowship Place