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"Corporate America is part of an assimilation culture ... they expect you to change to fit in. For black people,
if you misunderstand the social cues, you become more alienated from your co-workers and your work environment, and it only gets worse."
-- Gerald D. Jaynes, professor of economics and of African American studies, "TV Reality Not Often Spoken of: Race," St. Petersburg Times, Oct. 22, 2004.
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"There's this whole concept of healthy aging -- that folks who continue to remain engaged in activity, especially in the community and in social activities, stay healthier longer, so I think this is a reflection of that. It's not that gambling makes you healthy, it's that gamblers are healthier. ... The key is moderation, and once it gets to the point that you're showing signs of addiction, then it becomes a serious health threat and is overwhelmed by any small benefit it may have afforded you by getting out of the house."
-- Dr. Rani Desai, associate professor of psychiatry and of epidemiology and public health, about the Yale study showing that seniors who gamble are healthier than those who don't, "Gambling Linked to Good Health in Elderly," Lab Law Weekly, Oct. 8, 2004.
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"Democratic organizations have registered a larger number, but we don't know if they'll vote. Often these people don't fit the stereotype of the people who are used to voting. They often have a lower socio-economic status, which means they are less likely to vote. [The presidential election] will all come down to voter mobilization, a knock-and-drag campaign."
-- Donald Green, the A. Whitney Griswold Professor of Political Science, "High Turnout Expected in November 2 Presidential Vote," Agence France Presse, Oct. 10, 2004.
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"In the past, popular rumors held werewolves responsible for people's mysterious disappearances. In retrospect, this somehow seems reassuring, naming the otherwise unknown and incomprehensible. Today, in the labor market, outsourcing seems to play the same role: jobs in the United States and Europe suddenly disappear in once prosperous sectors, and outsourcing, the scapegoat du jour, is held responsible."
-- Olivier Cattaneo, postgraduate fellow in the World Fellows Program, in his article, "The New Yellow Peril," The Korea Herald, Oct. 11, 2004.
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"[T]he differences far outnumber the similarities. We don't even know if depression that begins in childhood is the same disease as adult-onset depression."
-- Dr. Robert A. King, professor of psychiatry, "Why Depression Looks Different in a Kid's Brain," The Wall Street Journal, Oct. 15, 2004.
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"[Creating a U.S. system for universal health care] is a deeply divisive matter. It divides the country into broad blocs concerning basic values and basic understandings of what government ought to do."
-- Theodore Marmor, professor at the School of Management and the Department of Political Science, and adjunct professor at the Law School, "A Political Hot Potato; Universal Health Care," St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri), Oct. 17, 2004.
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"[Free trade advocates'] argument seems to be that if those who would be hurt by free trade (manufacturing workers) could just understand the benefits to society as a whole, then they (or their unions) would support it, I suppose out of some general sense of altruism toward the rest of us. Interestingly, this is not how we expect rational economic agents to act in other spheres, especially when those agents are owners of corporations."
-- Michael Keane, professor of economics, in his letter to the editor, "A Sporting Guide to the Logic of Free Trade Economics," Financial Times, Oct. 12, 2004.
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"Finally, flu is spread via droplets; simple hygiene can help avoid transmission. We should all cover our mouths and noses to keep our droplets to ourselves, and wash our hands frequently. Despite the shortage, many means to prevent flu remain in your regularly washed hands."
-- Dr. David Katz, associate clinical professor of epidemiology and public health and of medicine, in his article, "What Everyone Should Know About the Flu," New Haven Register, Oct. 18, 2004.
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"Believe it or not, once you get used to looking at [fruit flies] under a microscope, they're beautiful."
-- John Carlson, professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology, on the appreciation he has developed for the insects he uses in his studies on how brain neurons function, "Yale Researchers Turn to Fruit Flies' Sense of Smell to Help Stem Disease," Oct. 17, 2004.
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"Probably eggs were kept in the reproductive tract for longer and longer periods of time. At some point the shell was lost and this provided that embryo with a great advantage because now it did not have to rely on the yolk for all of its nutrition, it could get it from mom's uterus. Once the embryo started to demand nutrients from mom, any adaptations that aided nutrient exchange, like the placenta and the embryo implanting directly into the wall of the uterus, would be very advantageous."
-- Vincent Lynch, graduate student in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, on how early mammals went from egg-laying to nurturing fetuses in the uterus, "Tracing the Origins of That 'Most Intimate of Structures,'" Japan Times, Oct. 14, 2004.
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"Our leaders, such as they may be, are not expected to be wise, even by their most loyal followers. Wisdom, as political experience, is supposed to be the mark of their advisers, but that necessarily is wisdom in a limited sense."
-- Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, in his article, "Wise Men, or Wise Guys?" The Wall Street Journal, Oct. 22, 2004.
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"[In the United States, Chapter 11] allows secured creditors to pull the assets, and unsecured creditors to get in line and have a neutral arbiter listen to the plans to run the airline going forward to produce positive cash flow. And if not -- it goes into liquidation. In other countries, bankruptcy means immediate liquidation, which is inefficient if it could be a going concern."
-- Michael E. Levine, adjunct professor of law, "Stricken Airlines Seek Shelter in a Storm," Financial Times (London), Oct. 19, 2004.
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"My purpose [in applying fractal geometry to understanding phenomena] is always to observe the symptoms and have a model of what is being seen. In the case of markets, it is frightening because there are so many people of great brilliance and extraordinary greed who work there. They don't understand the market, but they understand the numbers. ... A stockbroker wrote me a very plaintive letter asking why I was giving stockbrokers such a hard time. His argument was that what he did was right 98% of the time. Why bother about the events that occur in the rest of the time? The answer is that those events are the ones that really count."
-- Benoit Mandelbrot, professor emeritus of mathematics, "The Geometry of Mandelbrot; The Founding Father of Fractal Theory Warns that Another Great Crash Is a Real Threat," Sunday Telegraph (London), Oct. 17, 2004.
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"The popularity of the books [about the nation's Founding Fathers] suggests perhaps a realization that the principles of government the Founders stand for have been under threat. It is impossible to read the best-selling books without recognizing a contrast with the current incumbents of the offices that the Founders created and occupied."
-- Edmund S. Morgan, Sterling Professor Emeritus of History, "Founders Keepers; Amid the Current Political Malaise, Interest in the Founding Fathers Is at an All-Time High," The Boston Globe, Oct. 18, 2004.
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"The majority of Americans are pragmatic centrists. Politicians are more partisan, but the American people are much less so."
-- Bruce Ackerman, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science, "A Polarized People," New Haven Register, Oct. 17, 2004.
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