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"We have 90-year-olds who don't want to go to assisted living facilities because they think the people there are old. A lot of people over the age of 65 or 70 do not think of themselves as old, do not like the term elderly, and aren't excited about the term 'senior citizen.'"
-- Dr. Leo Cooney Jr., the Humana Foundation
Professor of Geriatric Medicine, "Senior Centers
Aim To Woo Baby Boomers," New Haven Register, March 22, 2004.
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"Religion and science are the ways humans have sought the truth. Our civilization is acquiring knowledge with such momentum that there's no turning back. The antidote is a different kind of knowledge about ourselves and our limitations."
-- James C. van Pelt, research fellow at the Divinity School, "Yale Scientists, Theologians Bring Their Beliefs to the Same Table," New Haven Register, March 14, 2004.
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"The [Saudi] government has had sort of a dual policy. On the one hand, [government officials] speak about reform, and on the other hand they try to control and navigate this reform so that is stays within particular bounds. This precarious balancing act is becoming harder and harder."
-- Khaled Medhat Abou El Fadl, visiting professor at the Law School, "Saudis Undertake a Formal Exchange of Political Views," "Morning Edition," National Public Radio, March 11, 2004.
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"India's advantage in absorbing white-collar tech support and customer service jobs lies in its widespread English fluency. While I was impressed by the increased level of English I found in China during a visit last year, English education must go down much further, beyond the elites, because highly educated fluent English speakers from China are not going to want low-paying data entry jobs outsourced from the U.S."
-- Nayan Chanda, director of publications at the Center for the Study of Globalization, "Language May Be Barrier to China Bonanza," South China Morning Post, March 17, 2004.
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"The politician has the exquisite dilemma of needing to exploit the six seconds when the smile can be a big part of that. That six-second opportunity is a moment when the smile can make a huge difference. It's great shorthand to say 'I am the voter's friend.' On the other hand, particularly in the United States, it's quite easy for a politician who's beaming a lot to play into the hands of a shrewd opponent who will gladly paint him as a lightweight or fool."
-- Angus Trumble, curator of paintings and sculpture at the Yale Center for British Art, "Faces Full of Meaning," The Mercury (Australia), March 20, 2004.
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"In the topsy-turvy world of airline pricing, a round-trip ticket is often cheaper -- even much cheaper -- than a one-way fare. ... Granted, this is a crazy condition. A newspaper doesn't charge buyers more when they throw away everything but the sports section."
-- Ian Ayres, the William K. Townsend Professor of Law, and Barry Nalebuff, the Milton Steinbach Professor of Management, in their article "The Wrong Ticket to Ride," The New York Times, March 24, 2004.
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"Brown [v. Board of Education] is like Shakespeare or Homer or Milton. It's canonical: It's at the foundation of how people think about constitutional law."
-- Jack Balkin, Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment, about the Supreme Court ruling that ended segregation in public schools, "The Ruling, Between the Lines," U.S. News and World Report, March 22, 2004.
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"An examination of the context in which Congress amended the [Pledge of Allegiance] in 1954 to include the phrase ['under God'] proves that the very purpose was to promote religion. It's often forgotten that the pledge originally did not mention God. Francis Bellamy, who wrote the vow in 1892, intended it as an oath of patriotism, not faith."
-- David Greenberg, lecturer in political science and history, in his article "One Pledge, Hold the 'Under God,'" The Christian Science Monitor, March 25, 2004.
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"Marriages have never received the automatic effect given to judicial decisions. They can be refused recognition in other states without offending full faith and credit."
-- Lea Brilmayer, the Howard M. Holtzmann Professor of International Law, "Marriage Isn't for Bench, or Bush, To Decide," The Recorder, March 19, 2004.
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"We used to be diverse. By about 2 million years ago there was a great variety of 'humans.' ... All but one, Homo erectus, became extinct."
-- Andrew Hill, chair of the Department of Anthropology and curator of anthropology at the Peabody Museum of Natural History, "Peabody Installs New Exhibit on Human Origins," New Haven Register, March 24, 2004.
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"For post-boomers, rock has long since ceased to be the music of countercultural rebellion. It is, at best, your parents' music; at worst it is the sound track provided by corporate entertainment behemoths like Clear Channel, which market it and police its content. Corporate rock now 'sucks' even worse than when Kurt Cobain said it did. Some composers don't want to have anything to do with it -- its adolescent volumes, its brainless pyrotechnics, its crotch-grabbing insolence."
-- John Halle, associate professor of music composition and theory, in his article "A Post-Classical Manifesto," New Haven Advocate, March 25, 2004.
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"I love the heart. It's basically a pump, which makes it a good target for mechanical reproduction."
-- Dr. John A. Elefteriades, professor of surgery, "All Pumped Up; Surgeons Work Toward a Better Artificial Heart," New Haven Register, March 21, 2004.
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