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"It's pretty hard to be a historian and to be optimistic."
-- Gaddis Smith, the Larned Professor Emeritus
of History, "Invasion is Easy. Occupation is Hard,"
The New York Times, April 13, 2003.
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"The one finding that psychologists agree on is that for males, a friend is someone you do something with, while for females, a friend is someone you are with."
-- Marianne LaFrance, professor of psychology and women's & gender studies, about a study on gender differences in relationships, "Making Time for Friends; Calls and E-mails Can't Substitute for Getting Together. Here's How Some Women Manage To Do It," Time Magazine, April 14, 2003.
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"Immediate action must be taken to secure what has been stolen from the National Museum of Iraq. The American authorities must immediately prohibit any transport of antiquities out of Iraq and any purchase of antiquities from Iraq."
-- Harvey Weiss, professor of Near Eastern archaeology, in his letter to the editor, The New York Times, April 14, 2003.
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"I am appalled as a Christian and a Baptist by the proposed evangelism campaign in Iraq by some Christian organizations. I am concerned that this would become an example of religious imperialism. God is not found in only one religion. Religious communities should not try to dominate other religions and cultures."
-- The Reverend Frederick J. Streets, University Chaplain, in his letter to the editor "Missionaries' Duty," The New York Times, April 13, 2003.
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"Those writings [in the Baghdad National Museum] are now lost forever. It is as if 98 percent of all European art had been stored in the Louvre and then was plundered and all the paintings smashed or wrecked."
-- Kathryn Slanski, postdoctoral fellow in Near Eastern languages and civilizations, about the post-war looting in Iraq, "U.S. Military Valued Lives More Than Iraqi Artifacts," The Oregonian, April 18, 2003.
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"The only way to have a functional child is to have a functional family."
-- Edward Zigler, Sterling Professor of Psychology, "Directors Organizing To Oppose Head Start Funding Switch," The Hartford Courant, April 17, 2003.
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"Even when [doctors] have a diagnosis, we may not be able to heal. Still, we can alleviate suffering."
-- Dr. Lisa Sanders, clinical instructor in internal medicine, in her article "Severe Lung Disease, Pneumonia, a Highly Destructive Bacteria," The New York Times, April 20, 2003.
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"[W]e can really change a child's brain. For example, we've studied children before and after they've had a reading intervention, and you can really see a difference. And after they've had the intervention, their brains look like other children's. So if you get help early, and also earlier on, the brain is more malleable. And as children go on not reading, they become more and more behind, and they give up on themselves."
-- Dr. Sally Shaywitz, professor of pediatrics, "Dr. Sally Shaywitz Discusses New Studies About Dyslexia," "NBC Today," April 21, 2003.
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"Our goal is to find all of the information on the chromosomes. We also want to know all of the regulatory DNA. It's important to know what all of the genes are. ... If you're trying to understand an airplane, you don't want to just look at the tires. You want all of the parts."
-- Michael Snyder, chair of the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, about the discovery that there may be more genes in the human genome than predicted, "Discovery Complicates Human Blueprint," New Haven Register, April 22, 2003.
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"Ten years ago, we were talking about static brain damage that happened in the uterus [as a possible cause of schizophrenia]. But the picture now is more complicated."
-- Dr. Godfrey Pearlson, professor of psychiatry, "Image of Brain Might Show Who's at Risk for Schizophrenia," The Hartford Courant, April 6, 2003.
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"When looters descended upon the Iraq Museum in Baghdad last week, they despoiled one of the world's pre-eminent collections of artifacts from the Tigris and Euphrates Valleys. ... Indeed, the whole range of human productive endeavor for 5,000 years was there: sculpture, metal work, glass, ceramic, ivory, textiles, furniture, jewelry and parts of ancient buildings. Inscriptions and documents told the story of peoples, states, empires and civilizations every school child can name: the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Persians, Greeks, Parthians, Jews, Sassanians and Arabs."
-- Benjamin R. Foster, professor of Near Eastern languages and civilizations, and Karen Pollinger Foster, lecturer in Near Eastern languages and civilizations, in their article "Missing in Action," The New York Times, April 17, 2003.
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"To be sure, history never repeats itself exactly, but it often deals hard blows to those who ignore it entirely."
-- Paul Kennedy, the J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History, in his article "The Perils of Empire; This Looks Like America's Moment. History Should Give Us Pause," The Washington Post, April 20, 2003.
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"The reasons most frequently given [by insurance companies] for denial of coverage are: Infertility is not an illness; treatment for infertility is not medically necessary. Ironically, insurance companies will cover procedures and treatment, far more expensive, for other medical problems that do not result in death or disability."
-- Dr. Ervin Jones, professor of obstetrics and gynecology, in his letter to the editor, "Insurers Should Cover Infertility," New Haven Register, April 13, 2003.
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"Betting on a quick resolution [in Iraq], we should see a rise in housing starts after that bad spell of weather. Otherwise, stock prices would be lower and oil prices higher. I'm taking some comfort in the market's assessment of these things."
-- Nicholas S. Perna, lecturer in economics, "Housing Demand Remains Strong in Fairfield," The New York Times, April 13, 2003.
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"In the 1916 [polio] epidemic, the epicenter of that epidemic was New York City, and New York City itself got associated as the cause and the transmitter of the disease, so that the governor of Pennsylvania set guards up along the borders of the main roads from New Jersey into Pennsylvania and refused to let anybody in who was from New York."
-- Naomi Rogers, assistant professor of women's & gender studies and history, "Horseman of Fear; The World's New Plague Spreads an Epidemic of Panic," The Washington Post, April 12, 2003.
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"It's hard to think of another (war) in which as much territory was taken as quickly with so few casualties -- and I mean that actually on both sides. For taking over an entire country, that's pretty remarkable. Normally it takes a lot more than that."
-- John Lewis Gaddis, the Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military & Naval History, "Iraq War Showcases U.S. Military's Power," Gannett News Service, April 17, 2003.
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