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"Understanding how other people think and see the world is crucial in international disputes."
-- Robert J. Sternberg, the IBM Professor of Psychology and Education, "East vs. West: One Sees the Big Picture, the Other is Focused," The Wall Street Journal, March 28, 2003.
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"We have reached a point in time where personalized health care can become a reality. You cannot make a decision based on your risk."
-- Ellen T. Matloff, associate research scientist in genetics, "Managing Menopause," The Hartford Courant, April 1, 2003.
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"The choice of what's sexually arousing is a complicated arena."
-- Dr. Howard V. Zonana, professor of psychiatry and clinical professor of law, "Pedophilia a Puzzle; Abuse: No Easy Answers," New Haven Register, March 30 2003.
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"Until recently, the United States consistently pushed for as much universal coverage of the Geneva Conventions as possible on the theory that this helped our own prisoners of war. On Sept. 11, the United States started carving out both zones to which the Geneva Conventions did not apply and troops to whom they wouldn't give Geneva Convention treatment. As a result, it has created confusion about whether the U.S. really stands for universal application of the convention."
-- Harold Hongju Koh, the Gerard C. & Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law, "Iraq Fights on its Own Terms," New Haven Register, March 30, 2003.
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"One of the more dynamic parts of a local economy is downtown housing, and this can be an area where a lot of both young and older people would love the idea of living in a small downtown center where they could walk to shops, restaurants and different forms of entertainment."
-- Alan Plattus, professor of architecture & urbanism, "After the Fire, Hope and Plans," The New York Times, March 30, 2003.
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"There is no freedom of the press, assembly and expression [in Cuba today]. They read the government newspaper. There's no toilet paper in Cuba. They use the government newspaper."
-- Carlos Eire, the T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of Religious Studies & History, "Childhood Interrupted: Yale Professor's Autobiography Looks Back at Life in Cuba," New Haven Register, March 30, 2003.
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"We would like to be always contented, to be cooly handling life and to be in control, but international and domestic stress in these days has set our teeth on edge. We have deep desires to be a people at peace, building our world, but we now have to combine such aspirations with the fact of being a people at war. In such a time, many of us call upon the power of faith."
-- Samuel N. Slie, associate pastor at the Church of Christ in Yale, in his article "In a Time of War, Faith Can Sustain Us," New Haven Register, April 6, 2003.
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"All babies, even those born blind and deaf, smile. Humans are prepared to smile, but what is interesting is how smiling is affected by gender, culture and power."
-- Marianne LaFrance, professor of psychology and women's & gender studies, "It Turns Out That Smiling is Not Just §
"These written records give us a wonderful picture of the past that we couldn't acquire any other way."
-- Frank Hole, the C. J. MacCurdy Professor of Anthropology, about the bombing of archaeological sites in Iraq, "Iraq's Archaeological Treasures Could Become Casualties of War," Fort Worth Star-Telegram, April 7, 2003.
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"No one likes war. But now is the time to recall that no one likes the word 'duty' very much either, or 'obligation' or 'responsibility' much any more, either. ... We have an obligation to listen when suffering people cry out and not turn away."
-- David Gelernter, professor of computer science, "Reading Between the Signs," The New Haven Advocate, April 3, 2003.
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"There's this horrendous statistic that 90 percent of museum visitors read 10 percent of the labels. It brings it home that you have to use alternative ways of doing these things."
-- Jane Pickering, associate director of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, about increased use of interactive displays, "Inside Looking Out; Nature Museums Illuminate Nature Through Technology," The New Haven Advocate, April 3, 2003.
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"Advances in technology, in particular, have increased the chances both of striking it lucky, and becoming very wealthy -- but also of being unlucky, and becoming very poor. The likely outcome is both greater economic uncertainty and greater inequality."
-- Robert J. Shiller, the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics, in his article "Risk Management for the Masses," The Economist, March 22, 2003.
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"What is wholly lacking in current political discourse is any recognition of the obscenity of war. It's as if we'd reverted smoothly to that primitivist thinking about death identified by Freud: We must be heroes, and the death of our enemies is greatly to be wished. I don't doubt our leaders' desire to minimize casualties and to control, to the extent possible, 'collateral damage' -- our nice euphemism for the inevitable killing of civilians by mistake. But it would be more honest if our death-dealing were discussed openly and fully. War may be a failure of conflict resolution by peaceful means. It is also a kind of failure of civilization."
-- Peter Brooks, Sterling Professor of Comparative Literature & French, in his article "Civilization's Obscene Ghost," Los Angeles Times, April 6, 2003.
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"[Intra-abdominal fat] is the most metabolically active. It's highly related to cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes -- independent of other body fat."
-- Melinda Irwin, assistant professor of epidemiology & public health, "Pot Belly Leads to Big Problems," The Hartford Courant, April 6, 2003.
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