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"Asking kids to do chores is a chore. And maintenance of a chore routine is high maintenance."
-- Dr. Kyle D. Pruett, clinical professor of psychiatry & professor at the School of Nursing, "Staying on Task: Dispatches From the Chore Wars," The Washington Post, March 20, 2003.
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"[Machu Picchu] shows what the New World had achieved before the Spanish arrived."
-- Lucy C. Salazar, manager at the Peabody Museum of Natural History, "'Lost City' Is Yielding Its Secrets," The New York Times, March 18, 2003.
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"Chronic exposure to war, disaster and catastrophic events, even through the news media, may cause children to experience stress, anxiety and fear. Children and vulnerable adults -- including war veterans, victims of violence and the mentally ill -- are at risk from witnessing the unrelenting atrocities of war."
-- Jeannie V. Pasacreta, associate professor of nursing, "Watching the War -- And Worrying," The Hartford Courant, March 25, 2003.
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"Although the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) says it can get medicines into the affected areas within seven hours of the discovery of an outbreak [of anthrax], what you don't see is any indication of the amount of time it would take to get the medicines into people's mouths."
-- Edward Kaplan, the William N. & Marie A. Beach Professor of Management and professor of public health, "Critics Say U.S. Still Vulnerable to Anthrax Attack," Fort Worth Star-Telegram, March 26, 2003.
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"India has been saying that it will bring the tariff level down to East Asian levels, but still hasn't done so. Until we open up much more, we are not going to be a major player in the goods market. But our attitude is one of fearing competition rather than facing competition."
-- T. N. Srinivasan, the Samuel C. Park Jr. Professor of Economics, in his article "Shun Deficit-Fed Growth," India Today, March 17, 2003.
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"We live in an environment that makes it easy, if not irresistible, to be sedentary and to overeat. We either need to change this environment, or empower people with the specific skills and strategies they need to overcome its challenges so they can achieve a healthful diet and weight control."
-- Dr. David Katz, associate clinical professor of epidemiology & public health and medicine, "American College of Preventive Medicine Weighs In Against 'Fad' Diets," Obesity & Diabetes Week, March 17, 2003.
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"It's safe to say that [television coverage of the war in Iraq has] created a lot of uneasiness. I've suggested to people that they try to curb their viewing of the events."
-- Douglas Mennin, assistant professor of psychology, "24-Hour War Coverage is Exciting, Addictive, Worrisome 'Reality TV,'" New Haven Register, March 28, 2003.
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"If you're not prepared to go to bankruptcy, if you're not credibly prepared to use the bankruptcy court, I don't see how you can call people up and voluntarily ask them to take cuts."
-- Michael E. Levine, adjunct professor at the Law School, about airlines' attempts to get concessions from unions by threatening imminent bankruptcy, "Rivals Likely To Imitate American's Stance on Labor," The New York Times, April 2, 2003.
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"But in order to succeed, educators need resources -- moral and political as well as financial. The private sector and the engines of civil society have a stake in the outcome. By engaging in the drive to raise student achievement, these forces can help shape that outcome favorably. Young people, and our communities, will benefit."
-- Josiah Brown, associate director of the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute, in his article "Support of Public Schools a Priority All Can Share," New Haven Register, April 2, 2003.
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"It is not true that marketing any approach to psychotherapy is acceptable. 'Chocolate Immersion Therapy,' for example, would be both unethical and fraudulent."
-- Robert J. Sternberg, the IBM Professor of Psychology and Education, in his letter to the editor, "Analyzing the Relationship Between Therapists and Research Psychologists," The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 4, 2003.
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"The states of the [Middle East] region are jeopardized by bad governance and an Islamist ideology that would abolish states and re-create the caliphate. In matters of social progress, the region's record is abysmal. The war to end Saddam Hussein's dictatorship is a prerequisite for change. One thing is sure: The world will not be secure until the states of the Middle East eliminate terror and rogue regimes and start to reform themselves."
-- Charles Hill, visiting lecturer in international affairs, in his article "A War To Save the World Order," The Hartford Courant, March 30, 2003.
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"We've been strong-arming countries for a long time. But there was a modicum of subtlety before, of diplomacy, because there are real things we need help on. It's not there now."
-- Jeffrey Garten, dean of the Yale School of Management, about the U.S.-Iraq war, "In Foreign Relations, Economy Trumps Diplomacy; Trade Ties Expected To Help Bridge Gap Over U.S. Push for War," The San Francisco Chronicle, March 31, 2003.
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"During times of war, surgeons work in battlefields and bunkers, operating in horrific conditions while trying to save lives and repair injuries. What was learned in World War II and subsequent conflicts allows us today to provide the highly technical and successful procedures that restore form and function."
-- Dr. Paul W. Brown, clinical professor of orthopaedics and surgery, in his letter to the editor, "An 'Obscene Laboratory' That Advances Medicine," The Wall Street Journal, April 3, 2003.
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"If you produce a car, you create both income (for the assembly-line workers) and also something consumers want to buy. That creates wealth because you're buying something that continues to have value. ... [I]f you produce bombs, you create income, but you don't provide something people want to buy -- at least I hope not."
-- William D. Nordhaus, Sterling Professor of Economics, "Change in Nature of Warfare Means U.S. Economy Might Not See Big Boost," Columbus Dispatch (Ohio), March 23, 2003.
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"In a situation where there is such disparity between traditional types of military power, the weaker party, namely Iraq, is resorting to a lot of devices that are deliberately blurring the line [between civilians and combatants]. ... All's not fair in love and war."
-- Harold H. Koh, the Gerard C. & Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law, "Viability of WWII-Era Rules of War Questioned," The Boston Globe, April 2, 2003.
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"The risks of this type of advertising will far outweigh the benefits for the average person. It will unnecessarily frighten a large number of women who will then flood their doctors with requests for unnecessary tests."
-- Ellen Matloff, associate research scientist in genetics, about the direct-to-consumer marketing of a new genetic breast cancer test, "Breast Cancer: New Ad Campaign for Genetic Test Examined," American Health Line, March 27, 2003.
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"Were one to suggest (tongue in cheek, I know) that all basketball and football games were banned for a month and sports fans invited instead to watch television chess matches, or darts, or snooker or -- heaven forfend -- recordings of an Australian-India cricket test match, we would probably have another American revolution. Our psychological need for swift and decisive actions would have been denied us, and that is intolerable."
-- Paul Kennedy, the J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History, in his article in The Guardian (London), March 31, 2003.
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"This is one of the most gratifying moments in medicine. You have a patient with complicated symptoms that could fit together in lots of ways, and it seems there is no simple and elegant answer. Diagnoses, like people and their lives, are often complicated and messy. But every now and then, there is the patient whose history, signs and symptoms suddenly come together perfectly. You get one piece of information and suddenly you see the pattern and know the disease. The patient gets a perfect diagnosis; the doctor gets to take pleasure in finding it."
-- Dr. Lisa Sanders, clinical instructor in internal medicine, in her article "Glowing Rash; High Fever; Kidney Failure; Every Once in a While, a Piece of Information Comes Along That Makes the Puzzle Fall Into Place," The New York Times Magazine, March 30, 2003.
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"Already star athletes earn enormous salaries, while those who are very good but aren't quite in the big league may get nothing. The ability of top athletes to earn such high salaries is related to the modern communications technology which allows millions to watch them perform and to pay for the pleasure. Thus, they have relatively little interest in the not-so-stellar athletes. So too, in the future, increasing information and communications technology, which allows well positioned people to offer their services more widely, may create huge fortunes for some and prevent others earning very much at all."
-- Robert J. Shiller, the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics, in his article "Debate: Insure Your Pay Packet, House Price and Country," The Guardian (London), March 31, 2003.
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Daily News alumni discuss how journalism has changed
Actor Christopher Reeve advocates for stem cell research
Dialogue about war in Iraq continues in campus events
Exhibit traces career of experimental British photographer
Yale to train future medical leaders in re-focused program
Study finds new drug holds promise in ovarian cancer treatment
Three students are awarded Goldwater Scholarships
Truman Scholarships given to two potential leaders
Adviser to Peru's former president to present Downey Lecture
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Frederic Holmes, a noted historian of science and medicine
Psychiatrist Dr. Ira Levine, former deputy director at YPI
Edward Hoffman, had served as director of operations at Yale
Yale Entrepreneurial Society will co-host 'Innovation Summit'
Book club event will feature a talk by Dr. Ben Carson
Yale hosts fifth Powwow
Discussion by scholars will examine the current state of affairs in China
Conference highlights graduate students' work . . .
Brudner Prize winner explores the history of sexuality in talk
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