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March 28, 2003|Volume 31, Number 23



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"The emperor was considered descended from the sun so there would have to be a religious component [at Machu Picchu]. But the Incas probably spent just as much time hunting or drinking corn beer on the plaza.

-- Richard Burger, professor of anthropology, "Spiritual Retreat," Time, Feb. 24, 2003.

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"Some of the governance ratings agencies look dodgier than the companies they watchdog."

-- Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, associate dean of the Yale School of Management, in his article "Meet Our Corporate Governance Watchdogs," The Wall Street Journal, March 11, 2003.

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"New discoveries in science can and should spawn new technological initiatives. By the same token, what can be accomplished technologically should be looked at for its effects on the environment and other phases of science."

-- Thomas E. Graedel, the Clifton R. Musser Professor of Industrial Ecology, "Experts: Administration Must Better Define Its Climate Change Programs," New Technology Week, March 3, 2003.

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"In 2000 [children] felt they were sitting in seats in a theater of violence. Not only were children the victims [of school violence], they were the perpetrators. It was happening in their world and grown-ups did not pay attention. ... After September 11, the grown-ups were paying attention. They held block parties, put signs up saying 'Our freedom matters.'"

-- Kyle Pruett, clinical professor of psychiatry, about the effects of schoolyard bullies, "For Kids, There's No Place Like Home; A Study Shows Today's Children Feel Relatively Safe," The Washington Post, Feb. 26, 2003.

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"The food world can be unbelievably vivid to [supertasters]. The world in their mouth is intense."

-- Linda M. Bartoshuk, professor of surgery (otolaryngology) & professor of psychology, "Could Health Risks Be Nipped in the Taste Buds?" The Washington Post, Feb. 24, 2003.

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"If [a biological attack on the U.S.] happens in the near term, we will be in serious trouble. It seems at a time when the risk is going up, we're advertising loudly this is one threat we're not ready to deal with."

-- Edward Kaplan, the William N. & Marie A. Beach Professor of Management, "Bush Smallpox Inoculation Plan Near Standstill; Medical Professionals Cite Possible Side Effects, Uncertainty of Threat," The Washington Post, Feb. 24, 2003.

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"Autism is kind of a fashionable diagnosis. Everybody's interested in getting better services."

-- Fred R. Volkmar, the Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry, on the broader array of services for autistic children vs. those with other disorders, such as mental retardation, "Is There More Autism? Or Just a New Definition?" The Associated Press, Feb. 24, 2003.

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"Unfortunately I think we're in for some interesting health problems, physical and mental [after a war with Iraq]. War is not a good time to do research."

-- Lowell S. Levin, Professor Emeritus of Public Health, "Gulf War Illness Still Unseen Enemy," New Haven Register, Feb. 23, 2003.

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"Wouldn't it be a great idea if the oil companies offered all-you-can-drive gasoline? For one fixed price, you could drive as much as you wanted. Of course, this is ludicrous. It would be massively unfair. It would create terrible incentives. Yet this is how auto insurance is sold."

-- Ian Ayres, the William K. Townsend Professor of Law, and Barry Nalebuff, the Milton Steinbach Professor of Management, arguing that auto insurance rates should be charged on a per-mile basis in their article "Make Car Insurance Fairer," Forbes, March 17, 2003.

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"Learning is not a purely cognitive enterprise -- children learn better when they have good physical and mental health and have families whose own needs are met."

-- Edward Zigler, Sterling Professor of Psychology, "Keeping Head Start Strong," The Boston Globe, Feb. 22, 2003.

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"There is no chapter in the coaching manual for this. You just try and take it a day at a time. You look for signs that someone might be having a hard time. You let them all know you are there for them 24/7. I have learned so much about this team in the midst of this tragedy. The most important things I have learned, however, is the love that they had for these two young men and the love that exists within the bonds of this team. Guys this age aren't going to say, 'I love you' to each other, but that love has come through loud and clear."

-- John Stuper, head baseball coach, about the impact of the deaths of two players in a traffic accident, "My Turn," The Sporting News, March 3, 2003.

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"[Health care professionals] need to try to prevent falls in the way that they try to prevent heart attacks and strokes."

-- Dr. Mary Tinetti, the Gladys Phillips Crofoot Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology & Public Health, "For Elderly, Fear of Falling Is a Risk in Itself," The New York Times, March 5, 2003.

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"One of the ongoing preoccupations in Russian novels now is the problem of what's happened to literature in post-Communist Russia. They [novelists before the break up of the Soviet Union] were often enormously privileged and were paid huge royalties ... and now they've been devalued in post-Communist Russia and they're very poor, suddenly."

-- Katerina Clark, professor of comparative literature and professor of Slavic languages & literature, "Clark Keeps Eye Out For New Tolstoy," The Canberra Times, March 5, 2003.

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"There does seem to be a societal norm toward gambling. It has become increasingly acceptable over the past several decades. More people are gambling recreationally."

-- Dr. Marc Potenza, assistant professor of psychiatry, "Unwanted Payoff of Legalized Gambling," The Hartford Courant, March 10, 2003.

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"Some doctors are skeptical that if an autopsy were performed, that a conclusive answer to the question of whether [Russian leader Joseph Stalin] was poisoned could be found. I personally believe that Stalin's death was not fortuitous. There are just too many arrows pointing in the other direction."

-- Jonathan Brent, associate director & editorial director at the Yale University Press, "New Study Supports Idea Stalin Was Poisoned," The New York Times, March 5, 2003.

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"If the United States is turning people over to people who might torture them, that is a violation of our obligations under the torture convention, which prevents us from returning people to conditions of torture."

-- Harold Hongju Koh, the Gerard C. & Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law, on the U.S.-approved interrogation of accused terrorists overseas, "Questioning of Accused Expected to Be Humane, Legal and Aggressive," The New York Times, March 4, 2003.

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"And though the time is always right for an act of conscience, perhaps the best time of all is when the voices of power are howling that dissent is treason. A crowd marching for principle voices a different kind of power, saying what power itself doesn't want to hear: Americans have a right to dissent. Civil liberties are not a village that you save by destroying."

-- Erika Munk, adjunct professor at the School of Drama, about her efforts to organize a protest march in her article "Saturday is the Time To Speak Truth to Power," Newsday (New York), March 20, 2003.

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"A lot of times you have to take your lumps before you're ready to win."

-- Tim Taylor, head coach of ice hockey, "The Right Decision; At 60, He's Still Developing Young Players," The Hartford Courant, March 14, 2003.

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"We are living in a unique time in human history. Changes are happening faster than they have ever happened; even, we believe, faster than they have ever happened in geological time."

-- Carmela Cuomo, associate research scientist in the Department of Geology & Geophysics, about the climate changes causing a massive lobster die-off in Long Island Sound, "Researchers Present Varying Theories on Lobster Deaths," The Associated Press, March 8, 2003.

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"This war will produce a poison in the United States' closest alliances. It comes close to risking exchanging Europe for Iraq."

-- William Odom, adjunct professor of political science, "U.S. Risks Isolation, Breakdown of Old Alliances in Case of War," The Washington Post, March 16, 2003.

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"The administration is throwing an immense, high-risk bet on this. If [war with Iraq] doesn't work out the rest of the world is not going to forgive us lightly."

-- Bruce M. Russett, the Dean Acheson Professor of International Studies, "Bush's Decision Fraught With Risks to Alliances, World Institutions," Knight Ridder Washington Bureau, March 18, 2003.

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"Some conservatives say we should balance the budget by cutting 'nonessential' spending. But where would the ax likely land? Not on the military budget, not on homeland security, not on the interest on our growing national debt. Health, education, housing and job training programs are already under the knife, especially at the state level, where cumulative deficits for the next two years are expected to total more than $130 billion. If spending is curtailed further, we could have the kind of politically paralyzing guns-or-butter debate that characterized the Vietnam era."

-- Jeffrey E. Garten, dean of the Yale School of Management, in his article "Bush's Guns-and-Butter Dilemma," Business Week, March 17, 2003.

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"Failure is the price of being on the bleeding edge, at the forefront of something you take pride in. In the past, you never would have wanted to be branded a failure, but now it shows you're creative, a risk-taker. Entrepreneurship is the greatest virtue these days. It's what everybody praises."

-- Gretchen Rubin, visiting lecturer in law, "Failure is the New Success," Management Today, March 4, 2003.

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"So I think that parents need to be very careful about modeling, a sense of calm, a sense of control and a kind of management of their own emotions so that they're not placing those emotions, that heavy burden of all of this worrying about the war and what might happen, on the children."

-- Dr. Valerie Maholmes, the Harris Assistant Professor of Child Psychiatry, "Dr. Alvin Poussaint and Dr. Valerie Maholmes Discuss What the Impact War Has On Children and How To Talk With Them About It," "Tavis Smiley," National Public Radio, March 13, 2003.


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

Message to the Yale community about the U.S. war with Iraq

Remembrances of Things Past

'Oldest College Daily' marking 125th year with panels, exhibit

Kumpati Narendra named as Cheel Professor

Christopher Udry appointed to Heinz chair

Actor Christopher Reeve to talk about stem cell research

Historian will compare Bible, Constitution

Illuminated manuscripts on view in Beinecke exhibit

The success of NAFTA to be debated at conference

Lectures focus on ethical issues posed by language

Program teams Yale scientists, middle school students

Study: Gender gap in smile rates likely not 'hard-wired'

Exhibition highlights drawings of ancient Pergamon Altar

'What Ever' takes audience on American odyssey

Symposium explores architectural dilemmas in the Middle East

Event showcases academic careers awaiting in university libraries

Yale Rep's Audio Description performances open window . . .

Architects chosen for renovations of Trumbull and Silliman colleges

The art around us

Yale Books in Brief

Campus Notes


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