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"One of the biggest misconceptions about hearing loss is that hearing aids fix hearing like glasses fix vision. There's just no substitute for the fine tuning of the normal ear."
-- Dr. Peter Rabinowitz, assistant professor
of internal medicine (occupational medicine),
"Hearing Loss: A Preventable Problem,"
ABCNews.com, April 14, 2005.
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"Colorectal cancer, which is highly preventable and treatable, needs to become a part of a woman's standard cancer screening regimen, right alongside breast and cervical cancer. With early detection and proper treatment, the five-year survival rate for a colorectal cancer diagnosis is 90%, presenting an opportunity to radically lower the number of women dying from this disease if only they'd get screened."
-- Dr. Edward Chu, professor of internal medicine and pharmacology at the School of Medicine and chief of the Section of Medical Oncology at the Yale Cancer Center, "Educational Initiative Targeting Women Gets Underway," Science Letter, April 12, 2005.
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"The events and the sayings of [the Old Testament] were taken over as predictions of specifically Christian truths. Wherever the word 'tree' appeared in Jewish Scripture, that could be read as a prediction of the cross. Where there is a saying 'Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder' -- one of the most familiar choruses in 'Messiah' -- is not quoted in the New Testament at all. But very soon, Christians begin to quote it as pertaining directly and exclusively to the birth of Jesus."
-- Jaroslav Pelikan, Sterling Professor Emeritus of History, "Jaroslav Pelikan Talks About His New Book 'Whose Bible Is It?'" National Public Radio, April 10, 2005.
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"Some Americans who joined a peacetime military may be surprised to find themselves fighting in blood-drenched Middle Eastern tyrannies. But the American armed services speak loud and clear and constantly to their trainees about combat heroes and traditions -- and combat unity, discipline, technique. They have never kept it a secret that they exist to fight wars."
-- David Gelernter, professor of computer science and at the School of Management, in his column, "Soldiers Do Us the Honor," Los Angeles Times, April 15, 2005.
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"Too many high schoolers drop out, 15 to 30% nationally. Many who do graduate are insufficiently prepared for college and work. We debate how much responsibility for teens' academic shortcomings rests with high schools versus with students' previous teachers, neighborhoods, families, peers or themselves. Learning is cumulative, with all those influences at play."
-- Josiah Brown, associate director of the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute, in his article "Tests Not Just Measure of Students, Teachers," New Haven Register, April 20, 2005.
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"The most dangerous thing at the cosmetics counter is the sticker shock of what it costs."
-- Dr. Stuart Bender, assistant clinical professor of dermatology, discounting concerns about contracting an infection from contaminated makeup testers, "Cosmetic Counter Confidential!; Bacteria Lurks in Makeup Samples -- Care To Try the Latest Shade of E. coli?" The Seattle Times,
April 17, 2005.
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"This is the only control that somebody condemned to die has. They're locked up and totally controlled. The only control they have is when they say, 'I'm giving up my appeals.'"
-- Stephen Bright, visiting lecturer at the Law School, "Another Inmate Seeking Death; Cobb Tells Judge 'It's Just the Right Time' for Execution," Hartford Courant, April 14, 2005.
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"On doctrinal issues [facing the newly elected pope], there will be strict continuity with John Paul II: fidelity to tradition, no change on issues like clerical celibacy, the ordination of women, reaffirmation of traditional teachings on birth control, sexual issues and end of life issues. ... I think a lot of more liberal progressive Catholics will be a little dismayed that someone who is so rigidly traditional is elected pope, but I don't think people are going to bolt the church in large numbers."
-- Harold Attridge, the Lillian Claus Professor of New Testament and dean of the Divinity School, "Reconciler or Hardliner?" New Haven Register, April 20, 2005.
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"We live in a five-second society. That's how long we have to get information about recycling to people. Five-second doses."
-- C.J. May, recycling coordinator, "Beyond Bottles and Cans," New Haven Register, April 17, 2005.
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"It's a rare merger of two struggling airlines that produces one strong one. It's like tying together two people with injured legs to run in a three-legged race and thinking they can compete."
-- Michael E. Levine, adjunct professor of law, on news of a possible merger between bankrupt U.S. Airways and the discount airline America West, "U.S. Air Merger Would Face Hurdles," St. Petersburg Times (Florida), April 21, 2005.
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"Embryonic stem cells is where biology all comes together. The processes that take place in these cells can tell us about other areas of biology."
-- Dr. Robert J. Alpern, the Ensign Professor of Medicine and dean of the School of Medicine, "State Aims To Attract Stem Cell Researchers," New Haven Register, April 17, 2005.
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"I've preached to these guys since they got here that strike one is the most important pitch in baseball. That's what they do -- they get ahead of people."
-- John Stuper, head coach of baseball, on Eli pitchers Josh Sowers, Jon Hollis, Alec Smith and Mike Mongiardini, "Yale's Foursome Fearsome From the Hill," New Haven Register, April 22, 2005.
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"We have to realize that [switching to electronic voting machines is] not going to be 100% foolproof. We are going to have to get assurances by checking and rechecking at every phase."
-- Michael Fischer, professor of computer science, "A Hitch in Electronic Voting; Critics Say the State Should Start Over for Best Technology in New Machines," Hartford Courant, April 25, 2005.
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"One of [writer Hans Christian] Andersen's weirdest and greatest gifts is that his stories live in an animistic cosmos, in which there are no mere objects whatsoever. Every tree, bush, animal, artifact, or item of clothing has an anxious soul, a voice, sexual desires, need for status, and a terror at the prospect of annihilation. Andersen's episodes of alternating grandiosity and depression are very much at variance with this created world, where mermaids and ice maidens, swans and storks, ducklings and fir trees, collars and garters, snowmen and wood nymphs, witches and toothaches, all possess consciousness as capacious, cruel and desperate for survival as our own."
-- Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities and English, in his article "Great Dane," The Wall Street Journal, April 20, 2005.
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"To me, the real concern with deformities [in frog species] is the implication that we may be modifying ecosystems in ways that lead to abnormal vertebrate development. ... Frogs are canaries. Canaries were brought into coal mines because they are acutely sensitive to changes in the environment. ... Because many pollutants are waterborne, the fact that amphibians go through critical developmental phases in the water may mean that they respond to contaminants that other groups are protected from."
-- David Skelly, associate professor of ecology at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and professor of ecology and
evolutionary biology in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, "Earthly Delights; The Frogs are Croaking; No, Not the French," Hartford Courant, April 21, 2005.
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"[T]he interests of terrorists and those of the states that support them are not always the same. Terrorists have no economic program; states in an increasingly interdependent world must have one. Terrorists substitute intimidation for representation, a bargain that has not proved sustainable in a democratizing age. And states seek to survive even if terrorists do not: even rogue states have an interest in preserving the international state system, because they have no way of knowing what might replace it."
-- John Lewis Gaddis, the Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History, in his article "After Containment," The New Republic, April 25, 2005.
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"High performers succeed by not mentioning that other people are taking care of [their children] and by not making any demands on the workplace. The issue isn't just who takes care of the children, but also who is taking care of the worker."
-- Judith Resnik, the Arthur Liman Professor of Law, "Balancing Work and Life the Jack Welch Way," The Boston Globe, April 24, 2005.
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