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"When I was a kid, I wanted to be an astronomer, and I asked my dad if men could ever walk on the moon. He said, 'That's impossible.' Years later, I remember being a med student and with my wife watching men walk on the moon. The impossible is now possible. It may not happen overnight, but we now have the tools."
-- Dr. Stephen Waxman, professor of neurology and chair of the Department of Neurology, about promising research that may help those with spinal cord injuries to walk again, "Prospects Improve for Those with Spinal Cord Injuries; Paralysis Is No Longer a Given as Research Expands," USA Today, Aug. 17, 2004.
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"Recently arrived immigrants, and others who are eligible to naturalize but have chosen not to do so, are not yet citizens -- and may never be. In a self-governing democracy, it is not unfair to recognize and maintain this distinction so long as legal immigrants are offered the opportunity to become citizens on an equal basis without undue obstacles or unreasonable delay. Current naturalization law meets these conditions."
-- Peter H. Schuck, the Simeon E. Baldwin Professor of Law, in his article "Only Citizens Should Hold Voting Rights; San Francisco Initiative Is a Misguided Step," Los Angeles Times, Aug. 1, 2004.
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"Obesity is a big health problem in the United States -- and growing elsewhere. But it is neither a priority for Medicare reform nor an appropriate preoccupation for medical care. Medicare's older and disabled clients have many more pressing insurance needs than financing for obesity interventions."
-- Theodore R. Marmor, professor of public policy and management and of political science, in his article "Bush Administration Plays Politics with Obesity," Newsday (New York), Aug. 17, 2004.
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"Even when the UN is not particularly popular in Washington, which is often, not many have turned down this job [as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations]. It's a high-profile post with a lot of media attention and direct access to the president. ... It can be exploited for personal ambition and lends lasting prestige to the person who has the job."
-- James Sutterlin, lecturer in political science, "The UN's 'Priest of the World,'" Christian Science Monitor, July 9, 2004.
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"Who are the readers and who are the nonreaders? It's not as simple as you might think. It's not a distinction that goes by social class, and it doesn't go by income group. It isn't a male thing or a female thing or a matter of sexual orientation or so-called white or so-called black. It's a broad generic distinction between the people who have a fundamental passion for books and those who don't. We haven't yet found an adequate way to explain it and, frankly, I'm not sure that even education can affect it."
-- Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, on a recent report that less than half of American adults read books regularly, in his article, "How Can We Teach Them Shakespeare when They've Never Read Chaucer?" Los Angeles Times, July 9, 2004.
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"Although many Americans despise the visual blight of sprawl, fewer of us realize that across the country the economic process of sprawl affects older urban neighborhoods and people of color most severely. ... Throwing away older neighborhoods while constructing new ones is an expensive practice that taxpayers in the United States cannot afford."
-- Dolores Hayden, professor of architecture and American studies, in her article, "Defining Sprawl," The Hartford Courant, July 1, 2004.
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"In the case of developing countries, the idea that opening one's own markets is a concession [to richer countries] takes on almost perverse consequences. According to this wrongheaded notion, the poorer a country is, the fewer -- if any -- concessions it should make. However, it so happens that the less open a country is, the more likely it is to remain poor."
-- Ernesto Zedillo, director of the Center for the Study of Globalization, in his article, "Last Chance to Avert Hibernation," Forbes, July 26, 2004.
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"Before the invention of coins, commerce depended on precious metals. But the amounts had to be cut to the size of the transaction and weighed out on scales. People had to carry the scales, weights and sometimes even tools to cut the metal, just to be able to transact. As a result, it was hard to carry out small transactions before the invention of standardized and identical coins, and trade must have been largely confined to big deals between major parties."
-- Robert J. Shiller, the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics, in his article, "The Next Economic Revolution," South China Morning Post, July 30, 2004.
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"Consider: of the 6 billion human beings on earth, the richest billion earn 80 percent of global income. Of the remaining 5 billion, half earn less than $2 per day and half are under 25. Hundreds of millions of new jobs will need to be generated to keep this population from a social implosion that would create an economic and moral catastrophe."
-- Jeffrey E. Garten, dean of the School of Management, in his article, "How 5 Billion Got Left Behind," Newsweek, Aug. 2, 2004.
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"As a patient, you have to make sure that you know the reason for everything that's being done, whether it's medication or an X ray or an intravenous line. Remember the T- shirts that said, 'Question Authority?' That's exactly what patients have to do."
-- Dr. Sherwin Nuland, clinical professor of surgery, "Good Medicine; Hospitals Make Mistakes. What to Ask When Taking Charge of Your Treatment," Time Magazine, Aug. 16, 2004.
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"[U]ntil very recently, we really didn't know that much about reading. But now everything has changed. There's actually a science of reading, and we actually now have real evidence. Just as when you go see a physician, you expect to be treated by something that's proven to be effective, we have that kind of evidence now that can guide how we teach children to read."
-- Dr. Sally Shaywitz, professor of pediatrics, "Teach Your Children," CNN, Aug. 19, 2004.
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