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February 18, 2005|Volume 33, Number 19

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"Most people don't want to spend their time to download the latest [computer security software] to deal with the latest disaster to strike. ... Would we deal with such tediousness for other products we use on a daily basis? Would anyone ever say, 'Hey, my brakes don't work but that's O.K., I can just download a new anti-lock braking system.'"

-- David Gelernter, professor of computer science, "Hallelujah, the Mac Is Back; Weary of Spyware, Tired of Virus Attacks, a Nation Turns Its Lonely Eyes to ... Apple?" Salon.com, Jan. 31, 2005.

"One of the frustrations for the public is that science always proceeds incrementally, one step leads to the next."

-- Dr. David Katz, associate clinical professor of epidemiology and public health and of medicine, "Interview: Dr. David Katz Discusses Recent Breakthroughs in Alzheimer's Research," NBC "Today Show," Feb. 1, 2005.

"This administration is doing everything it can to go back to a day when (forest management) was tied to timber harvest."

-- James Lyons, lecturer and research scholar at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, on a lawsuit charging that the federal government illegally relaxed restrictions on timber companies, "California's Attorney General Files Suit Over Forest Management," Contra Costa Times (California), Feb. 2, 2005.

"Feeling helpless is a powerful motivation for turning away. ... There's such a thing as compassion overload."

-- Dr. Steven Marans, the Harris Associate Professor of Child Psychoanalysis, about young children who do not show empathy toward victims of the tsunami, "'Selfishness' May Be Normal Behavior," The Record (Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario), Jan. 18, 2005.

"[Obese youngsters] are not dying yet of heart disease. But instead of having it at 60, they'll probably have it in their forties."

-- Dr. Sonia Caprio, associate professor of endocrinology and of pediatrics, "New Diagnosis for Overweight; Major Risk Factors Add Up to 'Metabolic Syndrome,'" The Washington Post, Feb. 8, 2005.

"Until the 1960s, World War II was seen as one of good and evil, with a clear moral choice. But the emphasis was on the victors, and the rebirth of nations, not the victims of the violence."

-- Jay Winter, the Charles J. Stille Professor of History, on why the Holocaust was downplayed in the decades following the war, "Remembering: A Duty Shared by All; 'Anti-Semitism Is Not an Opinion. It Is a Perversion that Kills,'" The Toronto Star, Jan. 26, 2005.

"Northwest serves fewer of the top 100 markets by size. We focused on markets that could support 1-1/2 to 1-1/4 carriers. We opted to be an unfashionable airline. My joke used to be, 'it's cold, and it's dark, but it's ours.'"

-- Michael E. Levine, adjunct professor of law, about his days as a senior executive at the airline, "Northwest Director Offloads 1.4m Shares," Financial Times (London), Feb. 7, 2005.

"[The Chinese] are very aware of the challenge of trying to grow really fast and bring economic development to all the people, while at the same time avoiding the 'grow now, clean up later syndrome.'"

-- Reid Lifset, associate director of the Environmental Management Program at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, "Yale Sees Benefits to Improving Partnership with China," New Haven Register, Feb. 6, 2005.

"The British colonies in North America were forged out of mercantile and imperial dreams as well as religious visions, on lands that produced money crops and in ports connected to the world of Atlantic commerce. They were built with forced labor, first of indentured servants and then of African slaves. These American colonies had the classic combination of elements for the emergence of slavery -- an abundance of land and a scarcity of labor."

-- David W. Blight, director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition, in his article, "America: Made and Unmade by Slavery," The Chronicle of Higher Education, Feb. 4, 2005.

"The field of gambling research is two to three decades behind that of substance abuse. Mental health disorders carry a stigma in society, and addictions tend to carry an even greater stigma."

-- Dr. Marc Potenza, assistant professor of psychiatry, "k230 A Winning Therapy?" Copley News Service, Feb. 6, 2005.

"[T]he view of the world that one gets in a modern business curriculum can lead to an ethical disconnect. The courses often encourage a view of human nature that does not inspire high-mindedness. ... If the premise [of financial theory] is that everyone would steal the silverware if he knew he could get away with it, and if we spend the entire semester developing the implications of this assumption, then it is hard to know where to begin to talk about ethics."

-- Robert J. Shiller, the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics, in his article, "How Wall Street Learns to Look the Other Way," The New York Times, Feb. 8, 2005.

"For two-thirds of the known causes [of recurrent miscarriages], there is a specific treatment. Then you have about 40% where you don't know exactly what has caused it. So there are some empirically unproven treatments out there that are highly debatable."

-- Dr. Aydin M. Arici, professor of obstetrics and gynecology, "Specialists Trying to Unravel the Mystery of Miscarriage," The New York Times, Feb. 8, 2005.

"The great 17th-century English polymath and physicist Robert Hooke went so far as to predict that the peak of medical accomplishment would be reached when a machine had been invented to allow doctors to see through the body with such clarity that everything occurring within it would be made easily visible. Anyone who has spent more than a few minutes as a bedside clinician would agree that it is hard to quarrel with that."

-- Dr. Sherwin B. Nuland, clinical professor of surgery, "Think Tank; Great Scientists Discuss the Breakthroughs of the Last Quarter Century -- and the Next," Discover, Feb. 2005.

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Child Study Center wins grant for early care program in Arkansas

Award-winning sports commentator to be next Poynter Fellow

O'Malley is honored for her work on addiction recovery

Study finds no risk of stillbirth following caesarean deliveries

New scholarship will support SOM students from China

Pam Stuper appointed head field hockey coach

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