Yale Bulletin and Calendar

August 29, 2003|Volume 32, Number 1|Two-Week Issue

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"We have already dodged one bullet: Had the 10 grams of weapons-grade anthrax from the 2001 attack been airborne rather then mailborne, 10,000 people could have died, even with rapid antibiotic distribution."

-- Edward H. Kaplan, the William N. & Marie A. Beach Professor of Management Sciences & professor of public health, and Lawrence M. Wein, in their article "Unready for Anthrax," The Washington Post, July 28, 2003.

"Human rights progress is not the same in every part of the world at the same time. In the U.S., we're ahead on some issues, but behind on others, such as the death penalty, gay rights and immigrants' rights."

-- Harold Hongju Koh, the Gerard C. & Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law, "Thinking Outside the U.S.," The Washington Post, Aug. 4, 2003.

"I don't know if I ever really got to enjoy (football) because even when we won, I was worried already about next week's ballgame."

-- Carm Cozza, former head coach of men's football, "Finally, Cozza Gets To Enjoy the Spoils," New Haven Register, Aug. 6, 2003.

"Washington frantically denies it has imperial ambitions, and I believe those denials to be sincere. But if the U.S. increasingly looks like an empire, walks like an empire and quacks like an empire, perhaps it is becoming one just the same."

-- Paul Kennedy, "Washington's Pax Americana Smacks of Roman Power Game," The Australian, Aug. 4, 2003.

"Our sense of how the world works is vastly cruder than we think. Laypeople ... think they understand the world in far more detail than they really do."

-- Frank Keil, professor of psychology, "Getting Just the Gist May Prevent Brain Overload," The Dallas Morning News, Aug. 17, 2003.

"Our teachers [at the School of Medicine] try hard to inoculate us against cynicism. They urge us to be humane, to remember our calling, to 'treat the patient, not the disease.' But caring too much is unwise. Somewhere along the way, I figured out that I can't take patients home with me, either literally or mentally. It's unfair to the patient, and intolerable to me."

-- Jenny Blair, student at the School of Medicine, in her article "Too Close," The Hartford Courant, July 20, 2003.

"We'd much rather people get an artificial tan and look great than spend hours and weeks and the entire summer trying to get a tan that looks great and get skin cancer and wrinkles instead."

-- Dr. Jeffrey S. Dover, associate clinical professor of dermatology, about the popularity of airbrush tanning, "Quest for the Perfect Tan Leads to the Airbrush," The Associated Press, June 22, 2003.

"One can build environmental sensitivity into a trade agreement without any negative effects."

-- Daniel Esty, clinical professor of law and professor of environmental law & policy, "NAFTA Strains To Meet Environmental Goals," The Dallas Morning News, July 25, 2003.

"I think the American ghettos were created by race, but I think the American ghettos are perpetuated by poverty. And I think the only way out, the only way to tear down these walls is to provide the people who still are locked within its walls the economic means to move to a different and better neighborhood if they so choose."

-- Owen M. Fiss, the Sterling Professor of Law, "Owen Fiss on His Proposal To End America's Ghettos and the Economic and Social Impact They Have on Our Society," "Tavis Smiley," National Public Radio, July 21, 2003.

"Just as we learn to practice in sports and practice makes us do things better, practicing reading aloud, not silently, but reading aloud over and over again, until you're reading more and more correctly, is an important step in increasing someone's reading speed."

-- Dr. Sally E. Shaywitz, professor of pediatrics, "Weekend House Call: Overcoming Dyslexia," "CNN Sunday Morning," CNN, July 27, 2003.

"Swapping debt is like lengthening the fuse on a stick of dynamite -- it may take longer for the fuse to burn but in the end there is the same explosion."

-- David De Rosa, adjunct professor at the Yale School of Management, "Economists Gnashed Their Teeth," Financial Post (Canada), July 19, 2003.

"If you believe baseball in Denver should be identical to baseball in Los Angeles, the baseball used in Denver would have to be changed. They do that with tennis balls. I'm not convinced it's important for the baseball to play the same in Denver as elsewhere. I think it's a fine game in Denver as is."

-- Robert K. Adair, the Sterling Professor Emeritus of Physics, about the effect of the city's high altitude on the Colorado Rockies players, "Team-First Attitude Fights Altitude 'Little Things' Win on Road, Home," The Denver Post, July 11, 2003.

"SciTech [science and technology], of course, did not -- and does not -- just happen. Like, say, constitution making, it has been a product of human agency, whether it was Edison sweating to forge his electric-light and power system, physicists struggling to produce an atomic bomb, or biologists trying to devise a vaccine for polio. And, having arisen from human effort, it has been (and remains) within the reach of democratic regulation and decision."

-- Daniel J. Kevles, the Stanley Woodward Professor of History, in his article "SciTech: The Forces Are With Us," The Chronicle of Higher Education, Aug. 1, 2003.

"At one [Ethiopian AIDS clinic], they could offer only a few vitamins, and at the other all they had on hand was a watered-down form of aspirin."

-- Margaret Ann Farley, the Gilbert L. Stark Professor of Ethics, "Sister-to Sister: A New Approach to AIDS in Africa," ASAP, Aug. 4, 2003.

"Ultimately, I feel that Shakespeare is so comprehensive and huge a consciousness that he's inclusive not just of the Western tradition. Students and visiting scholars and friends who travel, people from all over the world, have told me about productions of Shakespeare in Indonesia, Japan, Bulgaria and various African nations by no means Anglophonic. They tell me that the audiences, even when they are not themselves highly literate, are transfixed, because they somehow believe that Shakespeare has put them, their relatives, and their friends all upon the stage."

-- Harold Bloom, the Sterling Professor of Humanities and English, "Ranting Against Cant," The Atlantic, July 16, 2003.

"The stories are creative. 'I was cleaning my handgun and I had to get up, and the gun fell between my boots, and when I sat down ... .'"

-- Dr. Lewis J. Kaplan, associate professor of surgery, about patients' explanations for how objects have become lodged in their lower-intestinal tract, "Yale Doctor Helps Folks Out of Embarrassing Situations," New Haven Register, July 26, 2003.

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

A Message to the Yale Community

Refurbished Sprague Memorial Hall is an 'architectural . . . triumph'

Concerts celebrate the reopening of Sprague Hall

Professorship honors memory of Donald Cohen

Damaged law books are taken out of a deep freeze

Renowned neuroscientist Patricia Goldman-Rakic dies

Exhibit offers look at ancient forms of life on Earth

Wildfire costs are higher than accounted for, report charges

Computer-generated designs featured in architecture gallery

Artist's works portray Christianity through Thai art forms

Exhibit explores influences on American furniture design

Women veterans are found to be at higher risk for homelessness

Day of Caring drive will put books into hands of area children

Documentary on contemporary artists to be screened on campus

Alumni group supports students' summer service

Quest camera will aid scientists in astronomical research

Grant to Child Study Center supports evaluation of home-based care

Historian Jaroslav Pelikan is honored for contributions

Former Law School dean honored with the Fleming Award

'What Is a Good Death?' among topics of Bioethics Project programs