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"We define globalization as a historically rooted phenomenon -- a relatively new term used to describe a very old process. It is a historical process that began with our human ancestors moving out of Africa to spread all over the globe. In the millennia that have followed, distance has been largely overcome and human-made barriers lowered or removed to facilitate the exchange of goods and ideas. Propelled by the desire to improve one's life and helped along by technology, both the interconnectedness and interdependence have grown."
-- Nayan Chanda, director of publications at the Center for the Study of Globalization, "Explaining Globalization; Yale Web Publication Examines Our Integrated World," About.com, April 15, 2004.
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"There are parts of the governing Concertacion alliance [in Chile] that want to collect more taxes at any cost, and there are more business-oriented sectors of the Concertacion, and groups from the right, that scream to the sky rather than discuss a tax hike, claiming, sometimes without reason, that disaster is certain to follow. In the end, then, it is a discussion of the deaf."
-- Eduardo Engel, professor of economics, "The Royalty Fee on Mining Extraction," Santiago Times, April 21, 2004.
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"You don't have to absolutely, thoroughly, cognitively grasp a poem to be fascinated by it. When I was a little boy, already madly in love with William Blake and Hart Crane, I couldn't possibly have understood what I was reading. There is certainly some layer of understanding that is nonrational."
-- Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, "Talking With Harold Bloom," Newsday, April 25, 2004.
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"Just as you need a different environment early in life, you need to think about modifying the home environment for safety in the older years."
-- Dorothy Baker, research scientist in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, "Aging in Place; Trend in Remodeling Helps Older Folks Keep Their Own Homes Longer," The Hartford Courant, April 25, 2004.
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"We started out thinking kids might be exposed to dirty air while at school. It turned out the dirtiest time of their day was on their way to and from school on the bus."
-- John Wargo, professor of environmental risk analysis and policy, on his study, which revealed that children riding buses were exposed to 5 to 15 times the average pollution levels, "School Bus Becomes New Filthy Air Target," Chicago Daily Tribune, April 25, 2004.
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"[A Guilty-But-Mentally-Ill verdict] is a farce in that it is no different from a guilty verdict. It doesn't offer any specific treatment. It doesn't offer anything any different from going to jail and getting whatever any other prisoner would get."
-- Dr. Howard Zonana, professor of psychiatry and clinical professor of law, on a controversial alternative to Not-Guilty-by-Reason-of-Insanity verdicts, which require treatment in a mental institution, "By Reason of Insanity," The Dallas Morning News, April 25, 2004.
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"Americans simply do not understand how shocking our forms of punishment can seem to foreign observers. Take Germany and France. Degradation is regarded as so unacceptable in those countries that they have generally banned the use of prison uniforms -- a far cry from stripping prisoners naked to humiliate them. And that is only the beginning. Prisoners are supposed to be treated like ordinary human beings in continental Europe, entitled to ordinary respect."
-- James Q. Whitman, the Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law, about the scandal over the humiliation of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib, in his article "Prisoner Degradation Abroad -- and at Home," The Washington Post, May 10, 2004.
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"Since [the end of the Vietnam War], every deployment of U.S. forces has triggered high-minded calls to revive the draft, invariably in the name of fairness. But conscription in the U.S. has never been a model of fairness. Indeed, if 225 years of skepticism toward the draft offer any lesson, it's that entrusting our defense to soldiers who actually want to fight is, ultimately, the fairest way to keep the peace."
-- David Greenberg, lecturer in political science and history, in his article "Calls for Military Draft Promote Illusion of Equality," The Christian Science Monitor, April 26, 2004.
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"Our system of government can withstand uncertainty and additional suspense; what it cannot withstand is a sense that the rules are changing while the game is going on."
-- Donald Green, the A. Whitney Griswold Professor of Political Science, of the debate over anticipated problems in handling absentee ballots from troops overseas during the next presidential election, "Military Mail Difficulties Persist," Los Angeles Times, April 27, 2004.
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"In fact, New Amsterdam [now New York City] belonged to a world ex-tremely remote from our own. Its alleged 'melting pot' allowed for very little melting; different 'ethnic groups' stuck mostly to themselves, and looked askance at one another. Markets operated within the tight strictures of a traditional 'moral economy'; moreover, 'upward mobility' was seen as inherently destabilizing."
-- John Demos, the Samuel Knight Professor of American History, in his review of "The Island at the Center of the World," "The Dutch Apple," The Washington Post, April 28, 2004.
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"Diets rich in fiber and complex carbohydrates, found in fruits, vegetables, beans and whole grains, have been shown in a wide array of studies to be associated with longevity, lasting weight control, reduced risk of cancer, reduced risk of cardiovascular disease, reduced risk of diabetes, reduced risk of gastrointestinal disorders and overall health promotion. In other words, the notion of cutting carbs is a step in the opposite direction from everything we know about healthful eating."
-- Dr. David Katz, associate clinical professor of epidemiology and public health and of medicine, "Are They Selling Us Baloney?" Time, May 3, 2004.
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Graduate School presents alumni with its highest honor
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