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"You must look at the correct details. Life is full of 'a-has!' Life belongs to people who can see 'a-has!'"
-- Dr. Richard L. Edelson, director of the Yale Cancer Center, about the nature of research, "Researchers Seeking Approval To Test Revolutionary Process," New Haven Register, Sept. 27, 2003.
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"If there is any dissent left in the [Russian political] system it is mostly among corrupt bureaucrats fighting with one another over their share of the goodies."
-- Yevgenia Albats, visiting professor in the
Department of Political Science,
"The West's Favorite 'Democrat',"
The Washington Post, Sept. 24, 2003.
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"With West Nile, having a certain incidence of disease over time, it's going to sustain people's need for mosquito control. ... Maybe it's good [that] we have a little sustained virus activity, just to keep the health industry prepared."
-- Durland Fish, professor of epidemiology, "1st Illinois West Nile Fatality; Virus Kills Melrose Park woman, 78," Chicago Tribune, Oct. 2, 2003.
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"In the common law, there is no duty to rescue a drowning man. But once one has undertaken a rescue, and gone beyond a certain point, the law imposes a duty to continue. America had no duty to come to the rescue of the Iraqi people. Others, perhaps, had as high a claim on our attention. The Iraqis are not the only suffering and oppressed people in the world. But we made our decision, and our rescue effort is now well beyond the point where a duty to continue arises."
-- Anthony T. Kronman, dean of the Law School, in his article "Our War, Our Duty," The Wall Street Journal, Oct. 2, 2003.
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"[I]t is worse to have a regulation that fails to prosecute those who violate it, than no law at all."
-- Arturo Bris, the Robert B. & Candice J. Haas Assistant Professor of Corporate Finance, about the regulations on insider trading, "Canada Tops Inside Trade Lists: Profits Made by Corporate Insiders Highest of 52 Countries, 'Disturbing' Report Shows," National Post's Financial Post & FP Investing (Canada), Sept. 30, 2003.
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"Hospital care has evolved into a high-tech, low-touch operation."
-- Dr. Sharon Inouye, professor of internal medicine, "Preventing Delirium," The Hartford Courant, Sept. 30, 2003.
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"As things stand, telemarketers are trying to take your time without paying for it. That's why they call so often. Local phone companies could set up a kind of reverse '900' number system where customers would get paid for each minute they listen to a sales pitch. ..."
-- Ian Ayres, the William K. Townsend Professor of Law, in his article "Dialing for Dollars," The New York Times, Sept. 30, 2003.
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"There is a yearning for spiritual significance and meaning, particularly in the aftermath of Sept. 11."
-- Harold W. Attridge, the Lillian Claus Professor of New Testament and dean of the Divinity School, about the increasing emphasis on spiritual connections in the secular world, "Yale Divinity School Celebrates Restoration," New Haven Register, Sept. 26, 2003.
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"There's so much exciting work [in medical research] that happens in a controlled environment. The problem is to bring it to humans."
-- Dr. Jeffery Kocsis, professor of neurology and neurobiology, "Hope for Cures Lies in the Marrow: Though the Use of Stem Cells Taken From Interior of Bones is Still Preliminary, They Have the Potential To Cut 10 Years Off the Time it May Take To Develop a Safe, Practical and Effective Way To Restore Function in People Disabled by MS," The Gazette (Montreal, Quebec), Sept. 20, 2003.
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"There is an increased emphasis on mechanisms for assessing the product of teaching as universities worldwide embrace the marketplace today. A balance should be struck between formulating and executing assessments of teaching and the time available for teaching and research."
-- Gerard Postiglione, visiting fellow, about the Chinese government's review of teachers in higher education, "University Report Cards a Question of Balance," South China Morning Post, Sept. 20, 2003.
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"Data suggest that, among other things, it's the change in the economy in the year of election that gets a fairly big weight."
-- Ray Fair, the John M. Musser Professor of Economics, about the factors that influence presidential elections, "Is it Still the Economy, Stupid?" CNNMoney.com, Sept. 26, 2003.
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"Suppose that a president is not dead but briefly disabled, and the vice president is also unavailable, for whatever reason. Because separation-of-powers principles prohibit a sitting legislator from serving even temporarily in the executive branch, the statute says that a House speaker must quit Congress before moving into the Oval Office. ... But if the disabled president then recovers and reclaims power, the former speaker will have no job to return to. That hardly seems a fitting reward for faithful public service in a crisis."
-- Akhil Reed Amar, the Southmayd Professor of Law, on the current law regarding presidential succession, in his article "After the Veep, Redraw the Line," The Washington Post, Sept. 14, 2003.
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"The fear is that some regions of a country might race ahead, while others languish in poverty. It is a fear that prevails not only in India, but in China, South Africa, Mexico and Brazil."
-- T. N. Srinivasan, the Samuel C. Park Jr. Professor of Economics, and Nirvikar Singh in their article "Indian Economy Vis-a-Vis Globalization," The Independent, Sept. 24, 2003.
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"What we need for peak color [fall foliage] is a week or two of dry, sunny weather without too much wind. The leaves need bright sun to develop a chemical called anthocyanin. Without that, all the leaves would be all yellow."
-- Graeme Beryln, the E. H. Harriman Professor of Forest Management, "Fall Launches Speculation on Foliage Glory," Connecticut Post, Sept. 23, 2003.
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"Mutual funds have been the place you would advise the most unsophisticated investors to go: Mutual funds were designed for grandpa and grandma, and repeatedly recommended to them by all kinds of benevolent authorities. Thus scandals in the mutual fund sector are potentially much more damaging to public trust in our financial institutions than are scandals in other sectors. ..."
-- Robert J. Shiller, the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics, in his article "The Market's Most Valuable Stock is Trust," The Wall Street Journal, Sept. 25, 2003.
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"America, of course, is not the only country whose government says one thing and does another. If we were to create a Global Hypocrisy Index the U.S. would probably be only halfway up the scale, well below China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, France, Libya, North Korea and others."
-- Paul Kennedy, the J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History, in his article "Can America Afford Victory at Any Cost?" Independent on Sunday (London), Sept. 14, 2003.
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"The two economic superpowers, the United States and the European Union, still say free trade is among their highest priorities, because if they say anything else, financial markets will panic. But the fact is they don't care as much as they used to -- certainly not enough to face down their powerful farm lobbies at a time of slow growth and high unemployment at home."
-- Jeffrey E. Garten, dean of the Yale School of Management, in his article "Business: Going Up in Flames," Newsweek International, Sept. 29, 2003.
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"In the same way that there are extremists who are willing to sacrifice everything to spread a message of hate and compulsion and coercion, there must be, at least, an equal number of moderate Muslims who are willing to sacrifice everything to establish the fact that Islam is a faith of tolerance, mercy and compassion and peace."
-- Khaled Abou El Fadl, visiting professor at the Law School, "Difficulties Islamic Clerics in This Country are Experiencing in Promoting a Moderate, Tolerant Interpretation of Islam," "Weekend All Things Considered," National Public Radio, Sept. 20, 2003.
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"Our administration, faculty and students actively push technology boundaries for applications relating to health care, education, science, engineering and the arts, among others."
-- Gunther Dannheim, director of University telecommunications, about the installation of high-speed, dark-fiber optic network capability at Yale, "Three Universities Light Dark-Fiber Networks," Fiber Optics News, Sept. 22, 2003.
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"Our lives are filled with myriad objects that collectively inform our actions, reactions and interactions: from cars to computers, toothbrushes to telephones, doorknobs to diaper pails, steering wheels to shopping carts. ... Arguably, to deconstruct such objects is one way to better understand the world around us."
-- Jessica Helfand, critic in graphic design, in her article "A Common Sense That Finds the Extra in the Ordinary," Los Angeles Times, Sept. 28, 2003.
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"Twenty years ago, 80% of the Chinese population survived on less than $1 a day. Rural families saved for a year to buy a pair of boots, and urban families needed ration coupons for cooking oil, sugar and coal. ... Last year, more than half of rural families owned a color television, while 230 million mobile-phone accounts have made China Motorola's No. 1 market."
-- Deborah Davis, professor of sociology, in her article "The Bright Young Things Driving China," South China Morning Post, Sept. 24, 2003.
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"But our problem in psychology is the same as that faced in other fields, where ever-greater specialization tempts scholars to redefine themselves in terms of narrow specializations rather than the broader field as a whole. Psychologists of all persuasions have much to learn from each other, just as cultural and physical anthropologists potentially can benefit from each other's work."
-- Robert J. Sternberg, the IBM Professor of Psychology and Education, "The Short List: Pressing Issues in Academe," The Chronicle of Higher Education, Sept. 19, 2003.
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"Books are just about the only medium left in our sound-bite-driven political culture in which a writer can put forward an independent, original and considered set of ideas. Yet the publishing industry has come to favor books that promise quick profits by extending the shrill, impatient and partisan sloganeering of TV, radio and Web logs to yet another medium."
-- David Greenberg, lecturer in political science, in his article "Texas Swing; Two Lone Star Journalists Administer a Drubbing to Dubya," The Washington Post, Sept. 21, 2003.
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