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October 25, 2002|Volume 31, Number 8



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"It costs about $1 million to kill one person with a nuclear weapon, about $1,000 to kill one person with a chemical weapon and about $1 to kill one person with a biological weapon. Low cost alone may dictate that current and future terrorists will opt for the $1 biological killers.

-- Michael H. Sommer, visiting fellow, and Scott P. Layne of the UCLA School of Public Health, in their article "Would a Desperate Saddam Use a Doomsday Scenario?" The Record (Kitchener-Waterloo), Oct. 15, 2002.

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"Men are much more likely to see sex in the simple act of smiling. And that's not without merit. Younger women tend to smile more when putting themselves out there; a sort of signal that they're ready for a relationship."

-- Marianne LaFrance, professor of psychology and women's & gender studies, "Anatomy of a Smile; Study Explores Gender Gap in Facial Expression," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Oct. 15, 2002.

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"Let's say there are 100 studies on a drug and one of those studies says the drug has an effect on cancer. Ninety-nine studies show the drug does not have such effects. It is an accurate statement that a study has found that the drug affects tumors. But it is not true."

-- Dr. David Kessler, dean of the School of Medicine, on Food and Drug Administration rules governing drug manufacturers' claims, "Stung by Courts, FDA Rethinks Its Rules," The New York Times, Oct. 15, 2002.

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"[Heroin addicts receiving methadone treatments] felt that they were finally being recognized for their stability, by being able to receive their treatment in a more medical setting."

-- Dr. David A. Fiellin, associate professor of internal medicine, "A New Drug Means a New Venue," The New York Times, Oct. 15, 2002.

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"At this point, we have real reservations about voluntary mass vaccination [for smallpox]. The public is not well-informed about the side effects."

-- Robert S. Baltimore, professor of pediatrics and epidemiology & public health, "U.S. Stockpile of Smallpox Vaccine Is Ready, But Distribution Plan Is Not," Philadelphia Inquirer, Oct. 17, 2002.

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"You can't call it Election Day anymore. It's vote-in-person day."

-- Donald Green, director of the Institution for Social & Policy Studies, about the effects of early voting, "Early Voting Puts Many Candidates In Early Overdrive," The New York Times, Oct. 14, 2002.

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"[The United States not ratifying the Kyoto Protocol] is likely to engender trade disputes because it widens the already large disparities in energy prices between Europe and the United States."

-- William D. Nordhaus, Sterling Professor of Economics, "Kyoto at the WTO: In the Next Stage of the Kyoto Battle, the EU May Claim Before the WTO That U.S. Refusal To Ratify Constitutes Protectionism and 'Eco-Dumping,'" National Post, Oct. 11, 2002.

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"Never judge a people by what some politicians do."

-- Ernesto Zedillo, director of the Center for the Study of Globalization, "Former Mexican President Zedillo Visits San Antonio," The Associated Press, Oct. 4, 2002.

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"Mine was the last class of genteel and ladylike women. The next year's women didn't take any stuff from anybody."

-- Patricia E. Kane, curator of American decorative arts at the Yale University Art Gallery, about her time in the late 1960s at the Winterthur program at the University of Delaware, "At a Yale Gallery, Furniture to Learn By," The New York Times, Oct. 13, 2002.

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"The scale of this issue is 500 million times more complicated. You're implicating every business, every family that drives an automobile."

-- Daniel Esty, director of the Center for Environmental Law & Policy, about the issue of global warming compared to conventional environmental problems, "News on the Environment Isn't Always Bad," The Christian Science Monitor, Oct. 4, 2002.

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"They were so desperate to define themselves by what they weren't that they forgot who they were."

-- Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, associate dean of the Yale School of Management, about corrupt CEOs, "Scandals Grow Out Of CEOs' Warped Mind-Set," USA Today, Oct. 11, 2002.

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"There seems to be more effects from the stresses of everyday living rather than bigger, unusual stresses like a death in the family."

-- Dr. James Leckman, Neison Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry, Psychology & Pediatrics, about the effects of stress on the tics that are displayed by individuals with Tourette's Syndrome, "Straight Talk About Tic Disorder called Tourette's," Toronto Star, Oct. 11, 2002.

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"There are tremendous advantages of being a global investor because there is no real way to predict global trends in the long term."

-- Roger Ibbotson, professor of the practice of finance, "Diversify More, But Tactically; Portfolio Theory You Can Run, But Can You Hide?" The International Herald Tribune, Sept. 28, 2002.


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