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April 8, 2005|Volume 33, Number 25


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"Death was once an intimate to all. It made its way into every home. But in the modern age, death is generally confined to institutional settings. The more foreign we have made it, the more it seems to frighten and befuddle us."

-- Dr. David Katz, associate clinical professor of epidemiology and public health and of medicine, in his article "Our Society Must Meditate on Life, Death," New Haven Register, March 28, 2005.

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"If [teenagers who pledge to remain abstinent] do have sex, they go into this experience with the idea that, 'Oh nothing can protect me anyway, so why even bother to think about uncomfortable stuff and gross stuff like condoms.' That's the problem."

-- Hannah Brueckner, assistant professor of sociology, "Virginity Pledges Don't Reduce Rates of STDs, Study Finds," The Globe and Mail (Canada), March 19, 2005.

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"Young people today are captivated by poker. All this excitement that the president wants young people to feel [about his plan to replace Social Security with personal savings accounts] can only happen when they are playing the game."

-- Robert J. Shiller, the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics, noting that the younger generation might prefer the excitement of investing online or with their 401(k) plans, "How to Get Young People to Care About Old Age," The New York Times, March 20, 2005.

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"Physicians lull themselves into a false sense of security by saying 'It's a carcinoid; it's not a big problem.' And, in some of these cases, they misinform the patient, and then you get disappointed people, to say the least."

-- Dr. Irvin M. Modlin, professor of surgery, noting that most physicians don't understand how quickly these rare and usually slow-growing tumors can spread, "Ravaged by Cancer, Patient Feels Forgotten in Hospital; Lost in the System; Overwhelmed by Pain, Frustration and Anger, a Deathly Ill Young Man Slips Through the Cracks," The Dallas Morning News, March 20, 2005.

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"There's a deeper, darker set of issues in these breakdowns [of ethics in corporations]. People know right from wrong. You don't need morals training to know what you're doing is wrong. There's often a group-think mentality, where the notion of diffusion of responsibility sets in. It's often coupled with a super-charged confusion of the group, where it becomes impossible to consider alternatives or voice dissent."

-- Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld, associate dean of the School of Management and professor in the practice of management, "In Cultivating International Clients, Riggs Went Down a Perilous Path," The Washington Post, March 21, 2005.

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"Europeans are inheritors of a canon law tradition that strictly limits the punishment of minors on the theory that minors can't form the same criminal intent as adults."

-- James Whitman, the Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law, on the differences between American and European law concerning executing juveniles, "Juvenile Logic; Court Outsourcing," The New Republic, March 21, 2005.

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"When the Congress expands the jurisdiction of the federal courts, courts have an ambivalent view. They don't feel good about having high-profile cases dumped on them. They don't like to do quick."

-- Jack M. Balkin, the Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment, about the Congressional legislation sending the Terri Schiavo case to the federal courts, "Small Law, Big Implications," The New York Times, March 22, 2005.

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"In the '80s, you had a bunch of very distinctive notions about what a work [of art] should be about. I can't locate a group of artists now about whom I would say, 'This is really interesting. This is a new direction.'"

-- Peter Halley, adjunct professor at the School of Art, "How Does '80s Art Look Now? A New Retrospective of Work by Jean-Michel Basquiat Raises the Question, How Much of Value Did that Big Decade Leave Behind?" Time, March 28, 2005.

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"We're changing the face of the planet and deeply committing the future to a situation which, frankly, as a new grandparent I am so concerned about. If we don't do something about it, we'll be handing to them a ruined world."

-- James Gustave Speth, dean of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and professor in the practice of sustainable development, "The Thawing Arctic," "Live From ..." CNN, March 23, 2005.

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"Great nations, like great men and women, keep their word, and that's what this case is about. We gave our word, we got a benefit from it, and now it's time for us to keep it, even if it's inconvenient for us to do so."

-- Harold Hongju Koh, the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law and dean of the Law School, "Supreme Court to Hear Case of Mexican National on Death Row in Connection With Alleged US Treaty Violations," "Morning Edition," National Public Radio, March 28, 2005.

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"I think it is a very subjective issue about when a developing embryo becomes a human being. This is not something we can argue factually. We know it's alive. But a skin cell is alive."

-- Dr. Diane Krause, associate professor of laboratory medicine and pathology, on the debate over the use of embryonic stem cells, "The Stem Cell Debate Hits Home," The New York Times, March 27, 2005.

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"In some states, [legalizing civil unions for same-sex couples] will raise the ante by making civil unions the least that progressives or gay and lesbian couples would accept, but it would maybe make them push harder for marriage in some of these other states."

-- William Eskridge Jr., the John A. Garver Professor of Jurisprudence, "Connecticut Poised to Approve Civil Unions for Same-Sex Couples," "Morning Edition," National Public Radio, March 28, 2005.

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"People [who took part in high-stress mock interrogations] picked a male when it was a female who interrogated them. We had people who were interrogated by a white man who picked a black man in the line up and other minorities. We had people who were picking folks as their interrogator who have hair on their head, when in fact, their interrogator was bald. ... So, when you have a high stress event, whether you did live line ups, photo spreads or the sequential photo line up, you would have done better flipping a coin."

-- Dr. Andy Morgan, psychiatrist at the Connecticut Mental Health Center, on a Yale experiment assessing the impact of stress on memory, "Stress & Memory; Real Stress Has Profound Affects on Your Memory," "CNN Daybreak," March 23, 2005.

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"There is no reason to believe that any government could collect a national sales tax on a level that could completely replace income tax."

-- Michael Graetz, the Justus S. Hotchkiss Professor of Law, "Tax Reform: Another Dismal Science," UPI, March 21, 2005.

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"Young writers, especially, have been forced into a rather difficult culture in playwriting. When people hear the words 'new play,' the next words out of their mouths are 'We'll fix it.' With old plays, they say 'solve,' not 'fix.' One of my hopes is that this department can be a forum for dismantling this culture."

-- Richard Nelson, chair designate of the playwriting program at the School of Drama, on his appointment, "Boy Toys; Richard Nelson Takes On Strindberg -- and Takes Over the Yale Playwriting Program," The New Haven Advocate, March 19, 2005.


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