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"[Multilingualism is] more or less the natural state.
In most of the world multilingualism is the normal condition of people."
-- Stephen Anderson, chair of the Department
of Linguistics and professor of psychology,
"Share of People Who Are Native English Speakers Declining," The Associated Press, Feb. 26, 2004.
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"We'll never find an ultimate solution to weight control in a pill bottle."
-- Dr. David Katz, associate clinical professor of epidemiology and public health and medicine, "U.S. Military Research Could Allow People To Go Without Food for Five Days," The Gazette (Montreal, Quebec), Feb. 28, 2004.
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"When I tell people what I do I often get an embarrassed 'Oh? Then you must teach people to be gay or people who already are gay.'"
-- Jonathan D. Katz, executive coordinator of the Larry Kramer Initiative for Lesbian and Gay Studies and adjunct professor of women's and gender studies and of the history of art, "Gay Studies Flourish in Academia as Topic Gains Urgency," Chicago Daily Tribune, March 7, 2004.
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"What is shameful is constructed by all kinds of interactions you have with others. Most people will want to do the right thing, but most people do not want to be treated like a chump."
-- Dan Kahan, the Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law, "Deterrence Strategy; Prosecutors Send a Message. Are Executives Listening?" The New York Times, March 14, 2004.
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"If you put 100 people with autism in a room, the first thing that would strike you is how different they are. The next thing that would strike you is the similarity."
-- Dr. Fred Volkmar, the Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry and professor of pediatrics and psychology, "Lifting the Veils of Autism," International Herald Tribune, Feb. 26, 2004.
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"That's what boot camp has always been about. The idea is that experiences of mastery help protect people when confronted with stress."
-- Dr. John H. Krystal, the Albert E. Kent Professor of Psychiatry, "Art of Bouncing Back; By Studying Soldiers in Action, Researchers Hope To Understand Why People React Differently to Pressure," Newsday, March 1, 2004.
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"Telling U.S. courts not to evaluate international tort claims is like King Canute telling the tide not to come in. I'm sorry, but the sun is coming up tomorrow, and it's called globalization."
-- Harold Hongju Koh, the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law, "A Nation Unto Himself," The New York Times, March 14, 2004.
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"It's the first evidence that we have, really, that the sun could have been formed in a dense stellar nursery."
-- David Rabinowitz, research scientist in physics, about the discovery of a new planetoid, "Spotlight on ... The New Planet," Sydney Morning Herald, March 18, 2004.
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"Since 1989, the U.S. has been pressing developing countries (with the glaring exception of the Middle East) to implement immediate elections with universal suffrage. This is not the path to democratization that any of the western nations took. ... Most important, even today democracy in the west means much more than unrestrained majority rule. It includes protection for minorities and property, constitutionalism and human rights. A lot more is needed than just shipping out ballot boxes."
--Amy Chua, professor of law, in her article "Our Most Dangerous Export: Imposing Free-Market Democracy on Iraq Has Unleashed Ethnic Hatred," The Guardian (London), Feb. 28, 2004.
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"After a long period of people saying religion was a private matter, a lot of people are now trying to integrate these two parts of their lives."
-- David W. Miller, executive director of the Center for Faith and Culture at the Divinity School, "Thou Shalt Not Call In Sick?; Movement Brings Religious Ethic to the Workplace," The New York Times, March 17, 2004.
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"Go to any shantytown or village in a developing country and you'll find small entrepreneurs working hard to provide for their families' subsistence. As useful as this version of the private sector -- usually known as the informal economy -- is in providing some employment and income to large masses of people, it isn't enough to defeat their poverty."
-- Ernesto Zedillo, director of the Center for the Study of Globalization, in his article "Making Business Work For the Poor," Forbes, March 29, 2004.
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"Among its legacies, the Vietnam War left a lingering sense of shame. The retreat of American power, captured in the chaotic helicopter flights from a rooftop in Saigon in April 1975, made the United States appear precisely what Richard Nixon once vowed it wouldn't become: a pitiful, helpless giant."
-- David Greenberg, lecturer in political science and history, in his review of James Mann's book "Rise of the Vulcans," "From Saigon to Baghdad," The New York Times, March 14, 2004.
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"[T]here's a very big difference in our society between civil marriage and religious marriage. The goal of religious marriage in many religious communities is procreation and it's linked to that in some communities of religion. Civil marriage in the United States has always had as its sole goal to encourage, enforce and reward interpersonal commitment. In other words, the life of two people together, sometimes, of course, raising children."
-- William Eskridge Jr., the John A. Garver Professor of Jurisprudence, "Gay Marriage," "Talk of the Nation," National Public Radio, March 9, 2004.
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"When you try to use the toddlers' language to legitimize what they are feeling, they feel very reassured. They think, 'My God, I'm not in a foreign country. They understand me.'"
-- Dr. Kyle D. Pruett, clinical professor of psychiatry and of nursing, on a book that proposes parents stop trying to reason with toddlers and talk their language instead, "Joining the Clan of the Cave-Kids," Los Angeles Times, March 17, 2004.
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"This is a group [patients who live long enough to suffer long-term complications from diabetes and other diseases] we didn't treat several years ago, and as legions of Baby Boomers move into their 60s, 70s and 80s, they will want to remain active despite having diabetes, arthritis or cardiovascular disease. In the next decade, therefore, an ever-expanding focus of podiatric surgery will be on limb preservation."
-- Dr. Peter Blume, assistant clinical professor of orthopaedics, "Limb-Saving Procedures Reduce Diabetic Foot Amputations," Medical Devices & Surgical Technology Week, March 14, 2004.
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"[S]ome really strong corporate names from Xerox to Boeing to International Paper have had criminals at the top and they've come back strong."
-- Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, associate dean at the School of Management, "What Happens Now to Martha Stewart's Company," "Today," March 9, 2004.
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Yale to host training program for Chinese university leaders
New Peabody exhibit traces origins of modern humans
Art illuminates science of 'Fossil Fragments'
Conference to examine legacy of Brown v. Board of Education ruling
Yale Alumni Magazine's sales of Doonesbury print benefit literacy group
Symposium will consider future of voting technologies
Former secretary of state to discuss 'American Foreign Policy and God'
ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIPSAlexandrov named B.E. Bensinger Professor
Johnson is appointed as the Dilley Professor
Prum is designated the Coe Professor
Stop and Shop to support Yale research on juvenile diabetes
Fair will showcase diversity of Yale Library's Special Collections
Study: Diets high in protein and fat linked to risk for lymphatic cancer
Symposium will examine global community's response . . .
Advances in treatment of mental illness is topic of symposium
Event explores how computers are used in 'green' building design
Renowned Hindi writers to read and discuss their works
Unite for Sight to offer screenings at city library
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