Yale Bulletin and Calendar

March 5, 2004|Volume 32, Number 21|Two-Week Issue

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"Many of our clients [with autism] know the currencies of all countries in the world, but they cannot go to McDonald's and buy a burger and count the change. They know all the bus ramps, but can't take a bus."

-- Dr. Ami Klin, the Harris Associate Professor of Child Psychiatry, "Lifting the Veils of Autism, One by One by One," The New York Times, Feb. 24, 2004.

"The WHI [Women's Health Initiative] was not a study of young women going through menopause. The women in the WHI study were about 15 years after menopause, hypertensive, overweight, and given Prempro (a combination of estrogen and progestin) and they showed a very slight increased risk of breast cancer."

-- Dr. Rebecca Brienza, assistant professor of internal medicine, about a major study showing risks of hormone therapy for menopausal women, "Doctors Re-Examine Hormone Replacement Therapy Study," New Haven Register, Feb. 15, 2004.

"The job (of popular culture) has always been a reflector and motivator. It's been particularly important for this generation."

-- Seth Silberman, lecturer in women's and gender studies and in African American studies, "Yale Professor Offering 'Michael Jackson 101,'" New Haven Register, Feb. 17, 2004.

"Assuming the electoral structures of the past are going to continue into the future, Bush is almost for sure going to win. [But] if there's any time the equation goes bonkers, it's probably times like this."

-- Ray C. Fair, the John M. Musser Professor of Economics, on his formula for predicting presidential election outcomes, "Economy May Work in Bush's Favor; Housing Boom, Tax Cuts Buoy Many Voters, Despite Job Losses," The Washington Post, Feb. 17, 2004.

"It's a possibility that people could be picking this [new strain of mad cow disease] up. These agents are transmissible across species."

-- Dr. Laura Manuelidis, professor and section chief of surgery (neuropathology), "New Strain of Mad Cow Disease Discovered," The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Feb. 17, 2004.

"I would feel better about impelling a parent to come to school than expelling a child from it."

-- Walter S. Gilliam, associate research scientist at the Child Study Center, "Cincinnati School District Leads State in Expulsions," The Associated Press, Feb. 23, 2004.

"When we focused solely on dietary fat, the food industry gave us more calories in the form of Snackwell cookies and the like. Of course, we kept gaining weight. We are now inviting those same, eager-to-please manufacturers to serve up excess calories in low-carb rather than low-fat packages. It is just a matter of time before we can cut our carbs and keep the calories, too. So long, weight loss."

-- Dr. David L. Katz, associate clinical professor of epidemiology and public health and medicine, in his article "Weight-Conscious Public Controls Food Supply," Newsday (New York), Feb. 13, 2004.

"I think, as a country, we have pretended as though it doesn't matter to our very young children how much violence they soak up, and it really does."

-- Dr. Kyle Pruett, clinical professor of psychiatry, "'The Passion of the Christ': Should Children See Controversial Film?" "Good Morning America," Feb. 19, 2004.

"What's driving downtown revitalization everywhere is people living there."

-- Alan Plattus, professor of architecture & urbanism, on the need to incorporate residential units in redesigns of such areas, "Ansonia Approves Housing Proposal," New Haven Register, Feb. 24, 2004.

"If the [War Crimes Tribunal at The Hague] does not find Milosevic guilty of genocide, that would be a very serious problem because it would mean that the definition of genocide is so specific that it is unmanageable. This would have enormous implications for conflicts as yet unknown."

-- Ivo Banac, the Bradford Durfee Professor of History, "Tens of Thousands of Corpses, 296 Witnesses, 30,000 Pages of Evidence. Yet the Butcher of Belgrade May Still Be Acquitted of Genocide," The Independent (London), Feb. 20, 2004.

"Animals can repair themselves much better than we can."

-- Dr. Pasko Rakic, the Dorys McConnell Duberg Professor of Neuroscience and chair of the Department of Neurobiology, on the regenerative power of neural stem cells in animals, "Brain Gain," Newsweek, March 1, 2004.

"That so many around the world regularly exploit the innocent for personal and monetary gain [by trafficking in human beings] must be regarded as one of the most brutal forms of evil we confront today."

-- Harold Hongju Koh, the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law, in his article "Snatched in Sudan, Captive in Khartoum," The Times Higher Education Supplement, Feb. 20, 2004.

"We're the only country that has poor children in one set of [day care] centers and affluent children in another set of centers."

-- Edward Zigler, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Psychology, "States' Preschool Programs Failing, Study Says," Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio), Feb. 20, 2004.

"We have a history of knowing how retellings of the story of Jesus have been problematic (for Jews). I think conscientious Christians are aware of those issues and have made attempts individually and as church bodies to deal with them. One hopes we would have learned from our mistakes."

-- Harold Attridge, the Lillian Claus Professor of New Testament and Religious Studies and dean of the Divinity School, "Controversy Over 'Passion': Mel Gibson Movie Stirs Religious Furor," New Haven Register, Feb. 22, 2004.

"I put a list together of the [environmental] reforms that are being rolled back and it's a huge list. I think we're going to be fighting a lot of the earlier battles that we thought that science has won, all over again."

-- Gene Likens, the G. Evelyn Hutchinson Chair in Ecology, "South-East Asia Faces Acid Rain Problem," Canberra Times (Australia), Feb. 24, 2004.

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

Project capturing residents' memories of life in Elm City

Initiatives whet city students' interest in science, drama

Update on Budget Planning and Business Service Enhancements

Miller reappointed as Saybrook College master

Ambassador Liu applauds Yale's programs in China

Center promotes educational cooperation between Yale and Fudan

Study: Time can be factor in treatment of schizophrenia

Yale affiliates abroad can get aid . . .

Levin announces appointments of department chairs

Zedillo honored

Campus Notes