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"While the gaps between the rungs on the ladder of our economy have increased, what has increased even more quickly is how far people slip down the ladder when they lose their footing."
-- Jacob Hacker, professor of political science,
"Anxiety Attack; The Economy Hums, but
a Wary Middle Class Feels the Dual Burdens
of Uncertainty and Risk,"
U.S. News & World Report, June 26, 2006.
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"Can we prevent all damages from climate change? No. We're too late. We missed that boat, but we can certainly prevent the worst things from happening. This is our last chance to get it right. We have run out of time."
-- James Gustave Speth, dean of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and the Sara Shallenberger Brown Professor in the Practice of Environmental Policy, "Melting Point: Tracking
the Global Warming Threat," CNN, July 8, 2006.
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"I know from experience in working with people who have been traumatized that the expectation of help is reasonable and a midwife of hope. The misery of those affected by Katrina is compounded by feeling left behind by our government to fend for themselves."
-- The Reverend Frederick J. Streets, University chaplain, pastor of the Church of Christ in Yale, assistant clinical professor at the Child Study Center and adjunct assistant professor at the Divinity School, in his letter to the editor, "From the Gulf Coast, a Cry for Help," The New York Times, June 26, 2006.
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"We know that [16th-century Russian czar Ivan the Terrible] proposed marriage to Queen Elizabeth I a number of times. She managed to resist and keep up a good trading relationship, though there was a lot of back and forth. I think the lag time in correspondence helped. It was kind of like e-mail. If you don't want to deal, you let it go for a while, then say you forgot about it."
-- Cassandra Albinson, assistant curator of paintings and sculpture at the Yale Center for British Art, "To Russia, With Love," Hartford Courant, June 28, 2006.
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"People are often suspicious of healthier versions of food. They assume that it won't taste good.''
-- Kelly D. Brownell, director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, professor of psychology, and professor of epidemiology and public health, "With New Line of Snack Foods, Ali Makes Youth Obesity an Opponent," The New York Times, June 28, 2006.
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"Simple comments such as noting that when the child, say, sets the table before dinner, Mom has more time to put into preparing dinner ... help reinforce the importance of the child's contribution [to the household chores]. And, even if a child is receiving [an allowance] for doing chores, parents should compliment kids when they do a particularly good job."
-- Virginia Shiller, lecturer at the Child Study Center, "Getting the Kids To Lend a Hand," Atlanta Journal-Constitution, July 6, 2006.
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"A happy consequence -- and a cushion -- of increasing globalization will be more global families. Call this intimate diplomacy. Countries including the United States and Canada have long prospered through immigration. Further weaving together the planet's continents and citizens should be our aim. Love and marriage -- the deepest forms of trade and investment -- complete the tapestry."
-- Josiah H. Brown, associate director of the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute, in his article, "Marrying Cultures; The Magic of The Melting Pot: Love Will Bring Us Together," Hartford Courant, June 28, 2006.
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"Learning how to negotiate powerful feelings of intimacy is one of the most important tasks of the adolescent years. With their peers, adolescents have a level of control (in relationships) that they don't have with adults. ... Teachers are the central standard-bearers of the adult world outside of the family. A standard-bearer requires a teacher to be neutral, not seductive."
-- Steven Marans, the Harris Associate Professor of Child Psychoanalysis and associate professor of psychiatry, about a legal challenge to a law forbidding sexual relations between teachers and their students over the age of consent, "State Ed Board Will Fight Teacher Sex Law Challenge," New Haven Register, June 29, 2006.
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"Health care prices have gone up faster than inflation over the last 30 years, and so it's becoming a bigger and bigger percent of our GDP (gross domestic product). ... So if we're getting a lot of value out of our money then it's good, but if we're wasting money, it hurts the whole economy."
-- Jody L. Sindelar, professor of epidemiology and public health, "Yale Expert Monitors Pulse of Health Economics," New Haven Register, July 13, 2006.
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"[A] global culture can generate and sustain new diversities even as it transcends and erases the distinctions developed by people who lived for thousands of years in isolated communities. The cultural diversity we know today, a mixing of societies that were previously differentiated during extended isolation, would be replaced by a diversity born of contact among huge numbers of individuals shaped into fluid groups by the choices they make from a superabundance of educational and other activities."
-- Bruce E. Wexler, professor of psychiatry, in his article, "Melange; Hybrid Selves," The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 30, 2006.
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"We call this the ABCs of the SPF ... UVB is one of the two rays that affect the skin. So you have UVB and UVA. UVB causes the burn. Think about B for burn. UVA causes more of the aging, which we're all thinking about these days. It causes brown spots, wrinkles, skin cancer. So we have to worry about A. Remember that SPF doesn't do anything for A."
-- Dr. Amy Lewis, assistant clinical professor of dermatology, "Dr. Amy Lewis Discusses Importance of Skin Protection," CBS News: The Early Show, June 30, 2006.
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"Fleeing shame, blacks [in the late 1960s] made sincere attempts to create identities that they thought were consonant with ancestral Africa. The quest for an "authentic" African-American self bestowed near absolute supremacy on cultural nationalism. This was the high period of dashiki wearing and afro hairstyles. ... The race to be the blackest of blacks made it a liability to have white friends, light skin, straight hair and standard speech. The most extreme cultural nationalists, proclaiming 'black is beautiful' and demanding black studies, were light-skinned brothers and sisters sporting afros the height of African ant hills."
-- Gerald Jaynes, professor of economics and of African American studies, in his letter to the editor, "Yale 1968," Commentary, July 1, 2006.
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"Many people might have a narrowly construed idea of what constitutes a civil war based on familiar examples, like the American Civil War. Civil wars, however, actually vary widely. ... But if the term ''civil war'' seeks to convey the condition of a divided society engaged in destructive armed conflict, then Iraq sadly fits the bill."
-- Nicholas Sambanis, associate professor of political science and associate director of United Nations studies, in his article, "It's Official: There Is Now a Civil War in Iraq," The New York Times, July 23, 2006.
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"There are three sets of answers to the question of what the world will look like in 2025. The first is that the United States will enjoy one last fling, a revival of power, and will continue to rule the roost in the absence of any serious military contender. The second is that China will displace the United States as the world's superpower. The third is that the world will become an arena of anarchic and relatively unpredictable multipolar disorder. ... . Given the inability of maintaining an old hegemonic power, the difficulty of establishing a new one and the crisis in worldwide capital accumulation, this third scenario appears the most likely."
-- Immanuel Wallerstein, senior research scientist in sociology, in his article, "Whose Century Is It Anyhow? The 20th Was America's, but That's History," San Francisco Chronicle, July 16, 2006.
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"If [Republicans] get into September and they still have not done anything on immigration, then they are heavily subject to the charge that they can't tie their shoes."
-- David Mayhew, Sterling Professor of Political Science, "Lack of Legislative Victories May Hurt GOP in Elections; 'Do-Nothing' Label May," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 16, 2006.
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"Muslims believe that Allah is perfect. We're learning to appreciate that Allah's interpreters aren't."
-- Irshad Manji, fellow in International Security Studies, in his article, "Reformists Celebrate Good News About Islam; Pakistanis Make Moves To Change Laws on Rape While Debate on Religion Opens Up," Toronto Star, July 21, 2006.
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"Today, amidst misplaced hopes about U.N. sanctions [against North Korea for its nuclear program], or calls to shoot the missiles out of the sky (which is hard to do when they fail less than a minute into flight), Washington should go all out for one last diplomatic maneuver: a new version of the "China card." This gambit would see the U.S. step back and hand to Beijing the responsibility -- as well as the potential credit -- for cutting this nuclear Gordian Knot."
-- Michael Auslin, associate professor of history, in his article, "The China Card," Wall Street Journal, July 7, 2006.
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"[Theodore Roosevelt] appeared destined -- and felt destined -- to preside over, and manage, the U.S.'s emergence as one of the global great powers. He believed also that his leadership would be decisive because he had understood, before many of his contemporary political rivals and friends, the importance of naval power in buttressing the international position of the U.S."
-- Paul Kennedy, the J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History, in his article, "Birth of a Superpower; Roosevelt's Expanded Navy Vanquished Spain and Helped the U.S. Project Its Might Around the World," Time, July 3, 2006.
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"Common Article 3 [of the Geneva Convention, which governs wars involving combatants not tied to nation states] is not about them and what they do; it is about what we are and what we do. Some have said, 'Well, terrorists have not signed Common Article 3.' Well, whales have not signed the whaling convention. But it's about how we treat them and how we're obliged to treat them."
-- Harold Hongju Koh, dean of the Law School and the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law, "U.S. Says It Will Adhere to Geneva," Los Angeles Times, July 12, 2006.
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Terry Lectures mark centennial year with a discussion . . .
Galleries celebrate with open house block party
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NIH grant to fund $2 million magnetic resonance system
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Renowned scientist to head Yale Stem Cell Program
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Researchers measure the ravages of chemical warfare . . .
Study: Pre-surgery anxiety slows recovery in children
Study: More counseling for addicts does not improve abstinence
School of Architecture exhibit pays homage to 'Team 10'
Noted poet Peter Cole is the inaugural Franke Visiting Fellow
Concert will benefit Women's Health Research at Yale
Map created in Mexico's early colonial period is highlighted . . .
Library exhibits trace the history of Croatia . . .
Sterling Library's hours extended during Cross Campus Library renovation
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