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"Either we live normal lives with normal streets and normal sidewalks, or we go back to living in fortresses as they did in the Middle Ages."
-- Alexander Garvin, adjunct professor of
architecture, about incorporating security concerns into the design of the World Trade Center site,
"Seeking Better Security at a Symbol of Resolve," The New York Times, June 7, 2005.
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"I used to believe that government ran mostly on principle with political constraints. I now believe that it runs mostly on politics with occasional bursts of
principle."
-- Michael E. Levine, adjunct professor of law, "Airlines May Have to Fly Without Lifeline," The Wall Street Journal, June 2, 2005.
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"The value of houses changes a lot -- the market value. And it's worthwhile to reflect that although home prices have gone up a lot in the recent years, they are just the same houses, right? There's no change in the services they provide. It's just the value we put on them. And so a house's value can just evaporate overnight, too."
-- Robert J. Shiller, the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics, "Robert Shiller Discusses the Housing Market and Whether It's in a Bubble," "Day to Day," National Public Radio, June 3, 2005.
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''The capuchin [monkey] has a small brain, and it's pretty much focused on food and sex. You should really think of a capuchin as a bottomless stomach of want. You can feed them marshmallows all day, they'll throw up and then come back
for more."
-- Keith Chen, assistant professor at the School of Management, "Monkey Business," The New York Times, June 5, 2005.
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"If you are watching your diet, if you are exercising, then protecting your hearing should be part of your lifestyle."
-- Dr. Peter Rabinowitz, assistant professor of internal medicine, on the increased threat of hearing loss from exposure to environmental noise, "A Little Bit Louder, Please," Newsweek, June 7, 2005.
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"There are a lot of people who feel buffeted by their condition and the health-care system, and [they are] put into a depressed condition where they're victims and they're waiting for someone to tell them what the next test they need to take is. We need to balance the power here a little bit and make people understand the great importance of their engagement in their care."
-- Dr. Harlan Krumholz, professor of internal medicine (cardiology) and of epidemiology and public health, "Doctor Offers Steps To Beat Heart Disease," Hartford Courant, June 7, 2005.
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"The research is clear. It's not whether you work that matters; it's how you parent that matters. Parenting isn't measured in hours. It's measured in sensitivity."
-- Dr. Kyle Pruett, clinical professor of psychiatry, "Long-Distance Dads," New Haven Register, June 19, 2005.
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"Homeownership is one means of starting [to build wealth]. And it is probably the most important means, because it is going to be the most important asset for 95 out of 100 people."
-- Gerald D. Jaynes, professor of economics and of African American studies, "Beyond the B.E. 100s; Closing the Gap," Black Enterprise, June 1, 2005.
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"Originally these groups [like the Yale Glee Club] became all the rage in the mid-19th century, around the 1850s and '60s. There's been a lot of change to the singing. Before they got organized they called their groups glees because they sang entertaining songs about glee, which came from the British. Over the decades they've evolved."
-- Jeffrey Douma, adjunct assistant professor at the School of Music and director of the Glee Club, "Gleeful Mix of Old and New," The Courier-Mail, June 7, 2005.
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"We swing back and forth every 10, 20, 30 years. Should we give corporations freedom to give unverifiable information to the public or not? Transparency is good but if the numbers are wrong, information turns into disinformation."
-- Shyam Sunder, the James L. Frank Professor of Private Enterprise and Management, "Chief Executives Can't Win at the Numbers Game," Financial Times (London), June 13, 2005.
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"[T]he Chinese would be watching very carefully, because they have obviously been reading reports about the U.S. naval ship visits to Vietnam. And the fact that now this trip, the Vietnamese and the U.S. have agreed to establish a military training program, as well as the intelligence sharing in fighting the terrorist threat. These cooperations are viewed with some suspicion in Beijing."
-- Nayan Chanda, director of publications at the Center for the Study of Globalization, "New Era in Vietnam," "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer," PBS, June 21, 2005.
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"Obstetrics is a field often subject to inertia -- doctors have to be conservative because we're dealing with two patients and there's that much more risk."
-- Dr. Charles Lockwood, the Anita O'Keefe Young Professor of Women's Health, "Is Bed Rest Bunk?; Why an Unproven Treatment Continues To Be Prescribed," Baby Talk, June/July 2005.
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"Every major country is more preoccupied internally, and less focused on global management, than was the case a decade ago. Huge changes are taking place, whether it's the rise of China or the decline of Europe. International finance has become more complex. There is a huge range of labor, environmental and social issues. If companies basically say, 'this is not my responsibility,' something will fill the vacuum. We'll have another wave of really major government regulation or a degree of chaos, which would not help corporate America at all."
-- Jeffrey E. Garten, the Juan Trippe Professor of the Practice of International Trade, Finance and Business at the School of Management, "Are Business Schools Failing the World?" The New York Times, June 19, 2005.
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"[F]or an action science -- that is for us futurists who hope our visions of the future will be taken seriously and acted on by others out there in the real world -- there is a special obligation not to lead people astray and not to encourage them to act in a way that would be futile or harmful to themselves and others. The world is already overfilled with such false prophets from among the ranks of politicians, corporate executives, advertising pitchmen, media pundits and religious leaders, to name a few."
-- Wendell Bell, professor emeritus of sociology and senior research scientist in sociology, on the field of futures studies, in his article "Creativity, Skepticism and Visioning
the Future," Futures Magazine (Chicago), June 1, 2005.
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"When you're looking at an area of radical technological, economic and social transformation, we need to know what's happening in the social and economic domain, why it's happening in technological terms, and what are the technological possibilities. Only then can we understand that if we pressure this point with law or pressure that point with law, things will change in a way that is attractive or unattractive."
-- Yochai Benkler, professor of law, "The Future of Tech," Businessweek, June 20, 2005.
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"Opera can be about romance and death, but for me, all good opera is about
mystery."
-- Jack Vees, operations director of the Center for Studies in Music Technology at the School of Music, about his new opera, based on the life of physicist Richard Feynman, "Quantum Theory and Opera," The New York Times, June 19, 2005.
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"[The global warming threat] couldn't be a more serious problem. It is a security issue, a social issue and an economic issue that has the potential to destabilize whole countries. It's a form of insanity if we don't get serious about it soon."
-- James Gustave Speth, dean of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and professor in the practice of sustainable development, "Environment in Focus: Power to the People; Earth Summit Places Global Responsibility in Local Hands; 68 Mayors Pledging To Achieve 21 Goals," The San Francisco Chronicle, June 1, 2005.
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"You either pay for quality up front or you pay for it later. But many states are choosing not to pay for it on either end. They are choosing to work with the [preschool education] system that's already there, issuing aspirational statements and then turning a blind eye to what actually
happens."
-- Walter S. Gilliam, associate research scientist at the Child Study Center, on his study showing that preschoolers are expelled at a higher rate than older students, "The Politics of Preschool," Governing Magazine, June 1, 2005.
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"You might have thought that Connecticut had created a separate-but-equal regime of civil union and marriage [with its civil union statute]. Let's be clear. Civil union is a true advance. Being able to ride in the back of the bus is a lot better than not being able to ride at all. But the civil union statute is better characterized as separate but substantively unequal."
-- Ian Ayres, the William K. Townsend Professor of Law, in his article "Separate, Unequal How Civil Unions Fall Short of Marriage," The Hartford Courant, June 10, 2005.
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Yale launches program to train urban teachers
New alumni fellow elected
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Study: Monkeys ape humans' economic traits
Richard Shaw departs for Stanford post
Tennis goes co-ed at this year's Pilot Pen
Yale co-sponsors 'City of Summer' concerts and films
Exhibit features post-Civil War works by 'artful storyteller'
Yale alumni, teachers win Tony Awards
ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIPS
Philosopher Keith DeRose: Allison Foundation Chair
Phyllis Granoff: Hixon Chair in World Religions
Thomas Kavanagh: Street Professor of French
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld: Crown Chair in ManagementLaw School project exploring the information society . . .
Poll shows public's distaste with foreign oil dependence
Scientists discover how plants protect themselves from infection
Team seeking 'perfume' to control malaria-carrying mosquitoes
Geologists use ancient sea algae to trace CO2 levels of long ago
Study shows how sex discrimination in job hiring is able to endure
YSN study shows effectiveness of preschool health screenings
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE NEWSTeam to develop new system for testing potential vaccines
Senior citizens' television-watching habits affect their views . . .
Grant funds study of intestinal condition common in tiny babies
Yale center joins with Bike Across America to raise funds . . .
Alzheimer's disease patients sought for testing . . .
Scientists' discovery of protein amplification in melanoma . . .
Discovery of breast cancer growth regulator may help . . .
Patients disfigured by facial trauma suffer host of problems
Study shows how sex discrimination in job hiring is able to endure
New studies aim to benefit women's health
Study links an inherited pain disorder to specific gene mutation
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Athletics archive now in library's collection
Three promoted to post of associate provost
Event to explore role of faith in the corporate world
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Five faculty members awarded Guggenheim Fellowships for research
Event explored how libraries can benefit city schools
New alumni lauded for efforts to improve public schools
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