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March 9, 2007|Volume 35, Number 21|Two-Week Issue


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"If you came home and you found a strange man ... teaching your kids to punch each other, or trying to sell them all kinds of products, you'd kick him right out of the house. But here you are; you come in and the television is on; and you don't think twice about it.

-- Jerome Singer, professor emeritus of psychology, "Beware the Stranger in Your Home," TheTrumpet.com, Feb. 16, 2007.

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"In times of need, it's not the theology heard from the pulpit that people call upon, it's the theology sung, because the theology sung is memorized. 'Amazing Grace' is so multilayered, especially if it breaks out spontaneously. There's a real powerful joining of humanity that happens when it's sung at public events."

-- Patrick Evans, senior lecturer at the Institute of Sacred Music, "Amazing Grace Sunday: How Sweet the Sound," Baltimore Sun, Feb. 15, 2007.

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"People want to be treated holistically. We talk about diversity and inclusion -- how can we look employees in the eye and say we're only interested in the color of your skin or gender diversity? ... [Faith-related workplace groups are] not always [about the] piety of people trying to look like they're holy. A lot of times people are wrestling with issues like, 'My boss told me I had to reduce costs 10%, and I have to lay off people.' They are praying for wisdom."

-- David Miller, executive director of the Center for Faith and Culture, "Faith-at-Work Movement Going Mainstream," Miami Herald, Feb. 15, 2007.

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"A very mild punishment -- a look, a small reprimand -- works wonderfully well, if the behaviors you want to reinforce are being praised. ... [C]atch your child being good, and praise it."

-- Alan Kazdin, the John M. Musser Professor of Psychology and director of the Child Conduct Clinic, "Effective Strategies for Parents," Los Angeles Times, Feb. 19, 2007.

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"One of the things we've learned is that it doesn't do a lot of good to talk about weight, and it doesn't do a lot of good to beat up kids about it. We talk a lot about having energy to do all the things you want to do, being able to fit into fashionable clothes. Talking about the health scare doesn't do any good with kids."

-- Margaret Grey, dean of the School of Nursing and the Annie Goodrich Professor of Nursing, "Children More Weight-Conscious; Healthy Eating Is the Best Fix," Biloxi Sun Herald (MS), Feb. 15, 2007.

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"In the 1930's, the majority of city jobs were held by the Irish. Italians got a foothold in the 1940's in New Haven. The Republicans had similar arrangements until the New Deal coalitions. Democrats drove Republicans out of the competition in the northeastern cities. What's wrong with [such cronyism] is there is not a lot of accountability. It can lead to corruption, or it can harbor and protect corruption."

-- Douglas Rae, the Richard S. Ely Professor of Organization and Management, "Power of Committees Vary in State; Some See Bridgeport as Classic Case of Political Machine Running Government," Connecticut Post, Feb. 15, 2007.

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''People think working for something other than the most money you could get is an odd concept, but it seems a perfectly natural concept to me. ... In the finance world it is very easy to measure winning and losing in dollars and cents. That has always seemed to be an inadequate measure. The quality of life is a better way to measure winning and losing. Money is only one element of that.''

-- David F. Swensen, chief investment officer, adjunct professor at the School of Management and lecturer in economics, on why he chooses to work for a non-profit organization like Yale, rather than on Wall Street, "For Yale's Money Man, a Higher Calling," The New York Times, Feb. 18, 2007.

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"Both [foundations and federal courts] are accused of being anti-democratic. They are criticized as elitist (by liberals who criticize foundations for representing a harmful concentration of wealth and power) and activist (by conservatives who criticize liberal foundations of disregarding the intent of conservative donors and liberals who criticize conservative foundations for engaging in politics under the cover of nonpartisan status). ... Under the right circumstances, the situation could be worse for foundations because, while the courts are enshrined in the Constitution, foundations have no such safeguard."

-- Lincoln Caplan, visiting fellow at the Whitney Humanities Center, in his article, "Uncharitable Thoughts; Are Foundations Elitist, Anti-Democratic and in Danger of Losing Their Tax Exemptions?" Slate Magazine, Feb. 16, 2007.

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"Of the top six automobile-manufacturing countries in the world, the United States and China are the only ones that lack universal government-backed health care. U.S. workers expect employers like Ford, General Motors and Chrysler to provide cradle-to-grave health coverage, a significant cost burden not shared by competitors. The problem is exacerbated by health plans for retired employees -- every plant closure and cut in production raises the health-care costs per vehicle. As a result, the American auto industry is in danger of losing its global dominance. ... A government-funded system of basic care could increase U.S. competitiveness by decreasing administrative and other costs and emphasizing prevention. ... Government regulation could allow U.S. auto manufacturers to focus on product innovation rather than health care."

-- Susan Froetschel, assistant editor of YaleGlobal Online, in her article, "Globalization Forces a Health-Check of U.S. Auto Industry," Global Politician (NY), Feb. 21, 2007.

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"Nano means one-billionth. A nanometer is where the term 'nano technology' rises from. It is a billionth of a meter -- which is about 1/100,000th the diameter of a human hair. ... Chemists and biologists will say correctly that they have been dealing with nano-scale phenomenon forever, because that's the [scale] chemical and biological molecules operate on."

-- Paul Fleury, dean of engineering and the Frederick William Beinecke Professor of Engineering and Applied Physics, "Thinking Small Is the New Big Idea; Engineering Dean Fleury Will Spearhead Major Yale Nanoscience Initiative," Connecticut Business News Journal, Feb. 19, 2007.

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"The argument goes as follows: The Cold War, although unpleasant, was inherently stable. It was a bipolar world -- centered on Washington and Moscow. Yes, it's true that the two sides possessed masses of nuclear weapons aimed at each other's biggest cities, but the reality is that they were constrained by a mutual balance of terror. ... [People have forgotten that] those were really scary times, and much more dangerous than our present circumstance because the potential damage that could be inflicted during an East-West conflagration was far, far greater than anything that al-Qaida can do to us now. No one has the exact totals, but we probably had 20,000 missiles pointed at each other, often on high alert. And the threat of an accidental discharge was high."

-- Paul Kennedy, the J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History, in his article, "No Good Old Days," St. Petersburg Times (Russia), Feb. 20, 2007.


T H I SW E E K ' SS T O R I E S

Major gift to fund construction of Loria Center for the History of Art

Scientists determine ancient Peruvian citadel was earliest solar . . .

For students, spring break will be a time of discovery, service

SOM travel goes green

Researchers discover treatment for lethal kidney disease

Professor and trustee awarded India's highest civilian honor

Study implicates gene defect in early heart disease

Marvin Chun and John Hollander are honored by Phi Beta Kappa

Yale will help build DNA databank to further research on autism

Scientists clarify why colliding ice blocks interlace

Negative health effects of soft drink consumption confirmed in study

Exhibit looks at contributions of early women healers

Yale nurses Linda Pellico and Geralyn Spollett are lauded . . .

Past, present and future Elis are named Soros Fellows

Study finds that yearning -- not disbelief -- is defining feature of grief

Record number of city students taking part in annual science fair on campus

Conference to explore new collaborations with Turkey


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