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"There's no question music reduces anxiety before surgery. Music will decrease the amount of pain or anxiety medication a patient needs.
-- Dr. Zeev Kain, professor of anesthesiology,
"Surgery Teams Orchestrate Better When They
Listen to Music," USA Today, March 31, 2004.
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In medicine now there's a big emphasis on teaching students professionalism. In anatomy [class] we begin the discussion -- how the student will function as a professional, learning how to react to an uncomfortable situation, facing death and dying. We get them
in touch with their feelings.
-- Dr. Lawrence J. Rizzolo, associate professor of surgery, gross anatomy and ophthalmology, "Anatomy Lessons, a Vanishing Rite for Young
Doctors," The New York Times, March 23, 2004.
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"The message to eat healthier and be more active is good, but to set it up in a way that makes overweight people look disgusting is highly insensitive, stigmatizing and not necessary."
-- Kelly Brownell, chair of the Department of Psychology and director of the Center for Eating and Weight Disorders, "Obesity Edging Smoking as No. 1 Preventable Killer of Americans," Knight Ridder/Tribune, March 19, 2004.
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"Time is running out. We are on the verge of reaping an appalling deterioration of our natural assets."
-- James Gustave Speth, dean of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, "First Climate Treaty 10 Years Old -- and Almost Ignored," Cox News Service, March 19, 2004.
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"We Americans may consider ourselves more informal than the Continentals ... but in our medical community, clothing follows a definite code. Doctors and technicians wear long white coats, medical students wear short ones, and nurses choose the kind with elastic wrists and no collar. White stockings are strictly for nurses, as are white shoes -- and they'd better be close-toed shoes. Not so in France. Doctors might wear a long white coat, but they might just as easily sport a waist-length, short-sleeve Norman Rockwellesque number (with a pack of Marlboros, perhaps, in the breast pocket). Secretaries sweep down the hall in long white coats, while nurses might go about their business in Birkenstocks. I couldn't remember ever having seen the toes of an American nurse."
-- Jenny Blair, student at the School of Medicine, about her recent visit to a French hospital in her article "En France," The Hartford Courant, March 21, 2004.
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"It's a very strange thing that we [humans] do in walking around on two legs."
-- Andrew Hill, chair of the Department of Anthropology and curator of anthropology at the Peabody Museum of Natural History, "Exhibit Follows the Links from Ape Man to Modern Man," The Hartford Courant, March 26, 2004.
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"If you connect every household in America by broadband Internet you increase the modes of vulnerability [to cyber-terrorism]."
-- Jack Balkin, the Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment, "Broadband's Fast Track to Trouble," Newsday, March 31, 2004.
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"These are the most marginalized of all people [in Africa]. The stereotype that many people have of disabled people is that they aren't sexually active. It just hasn't occurred to many people that they get AIDS, too."
-- Nora E. Groce, associate professor of epidemiology and public health and adjunct associate professor of anthropology, "For Africa's Deaf and Blind, AIDS Is an Unknown Language," The New York Times, March 28, 2004.
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"Yet so passionate were the Russian imperialists for a greater share of the world's land mass, and to establish their own manifest destiny, that they failed to realize that all attempts to exploit these ice-encrusted regions cost more resources than could be extracted from the Siberian wastes. ... Siberia was not so much the region of the greatest, wealthiest resources remaining in the world (as Cold War planners on each side chanted as a mantra), but a bottomless pit, a drain, a gigantic frozen albatross around Russia's neck."
-- Paul Kennedy, the J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History, in his article "Empire-Builders Beware; Bigger Is Not Always Better," The Australian, March 22, 2004.
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"Fears about computers eliminating jobs are, of course, not new. Fifty years ago, Norbert Wiener of MIT, a great 20th-century mathematician and pioneer of computer science, warned of the threat that computers posed to jobs. ... A half-century later, nothing really bad happened to any major segment of our population that can be blamed on computers. But that is because computers started from small beginnings, so that we have up to now only been on the flat part of the hockey stick."
-- Robert J. Shiller, professor of economics, in his article "Computer Revolution Eating Away Jobs," The Korea Herald, March 22, 2004.
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"Now, when we look back at Brown [v. Board of Education], we don't question whether it was morally right."
-- Robert A Solomon, clinical professor of law, "The Power of a Moment," U.S. News and World Report, March 22, 2004.
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"There can be no doubt that the Madrid bombings changed the outcome of the election. But there is no reason to think those who turned out in record numbers to vote for the PSOE [Socialist Workers Party] did so in order to appease the terrorists, or in the hope that by doing so Spain might obtain a separate peace. ... Rather, it reflected the rejection of a government that had pursued an overwhelmingly unpopular policy with regard to Iraq and, after the bombings, had sought to spin initial speculation about the identity of the bombers to its advantage."
-- David Ross Cameron, professor of political science, in his article "Vote in Spain Was Victory for Democracy, Not Appeasement," New Haven Register, March 28, 2004.
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"The perception in Uzbekistan was that when the U.S. military moved in, it was going to provide more stability from the terrorists and force the Uzbek government to protect human rights. But it hasn't done either of those things."
-- Pauline Jones Luong, assistant professor of political science, "Terror Threat Has Spread in One of the Few Places Singled Out by Bush After Sept. 11," The Associated Press, March 31, 2004.
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"Of course, [the play 'Henry VI' was written by] a very young Shakespeare, sort of exuberantly learning to do it. It's great fun. It's immensely colorful. It's a crowd-pleaser. I don't think anybody could ever keep the plots and characters straight, including Shakespeare."
-- Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, "Oregon Shakespeare Festival Offers Rare Performance of Henry VI Series," The Associated Press, March 22, 2004.
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"We know that none of the legacy network carriers can survive with their costs in their current form because they can't charge the prices it would take to cover those costs. Most likely we'll see more of these guys in bankruptcy; what we don't know is whether they'll succeed in their reorganization or go on to liquidation. And to a considerable extent that will depend on their labor forces."
-- Michael E. Levine, adjunct professor of law, "A Great Time to Fly, Unless You're a Major Airline," The Christian Science Monitor, March 24, 2004.
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"The major role of the nation state is setting frameworks, exercising stewardship and setting standards. The state has to live up to these responsibilities. We know certain things are more harmful than others for large groups of the population, salt is one, and sugar. So we have to face up to the public health consequences. We can't expect each individual to constantly run around with a calculator. One could set a goal, say that within five years no tin of baked beans would have more than this percentage of salt and no cola drink will have more than this percentage of sugar."
-- Ilona Kickbusch, professor of epidemiology and public health, "Health's Servant," The Guardian, March 31, 2004.
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"The people who entered the military [in the late and post-Vietnam period] were people who didn't have good prospects in the civilian economy."
-- Dr. Robert Rosenheck, professor of psychiatry and epidemiology and public health, "Soldiers of Misfortune; At Bottom Rung of Poverty, More Homeless Veterans Seeking Help," The Washington Post, March 30, 2004.
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"Twenty years ago, the music we were forced to listen to in the concert hall was academic. It was excruciating. The way I see it, the minimalists wiped the slate clean. It was a cleaning of the harmonic blackboard. It also opened the door for ethnic music, brought world music into the classical vocabulary."
-- Ransom Wilson, adjunct professor of flute at the School of Music, "Audience for Ransom," New Haven Advocate, March 25, 2004.
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"New music is constantly being written for guitar. People are less afraid of barriers with guitar than they may be with other instruments. The great thing about the classical guitar is its incredible range of color. ... There are a lot of techniques that have entered classical guitar from different styles. You'll find composers influenced by Eddie Van Halen or Michael Hedges."
-- Benjamin Verdery, adjunct assistant professor at the School of Music, "Have Axe, Will Smash Boundaries," New Haven Advocate, March 25, 2004.
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"The U.S. economy is in substantially better shape than Europe."
-- David De Rosa, adjunct professor at the School of Management, "Weak Dollar, Strong Returns," New Haven Register, March 29, 2004.
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"[T]he Christian community did, indeed, for a considerable time, remain a Jewish sect. Yet by the time the Gospels were written, it had, at least formally, broken its ties with its mother religion and had started becoming an independent faith. The separation caused hostility on both sides, leading to abusive behavior by the politically stronger party."
-- Nicholas Wolterstorff, professor emeritus in philosophical theology, in his letter to the editor, "Revisiting the Real Jesus; Passion Takes; Fervent Furor," U.S. News & World Report, April 5, 2004.
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"The most dangerous part [about the giant solar storm in October] was not the strength of this flare, but that it was pointed at us. Fortunately, the magnetic orientation of this blob of energy was not aligned to cause the greatest disruption to earth's magnetic field."
-- Sabatino Sofia, professor of astronomy, "Why the Sun Shines," The Statesman (India), March 23, 2004.
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