X
"If [a corporation] had a supplier using child labor or dumping waste into a local river, that used to be pretty well hidden. Now, someone walks by with a camera and blogs about it."
-- Andrew Winston, project director of the Corporate Environmental Strategy Project at the Center for Environmental Law and Policy, "Virtue Rewarded," CFO Magazine, Oct. 1, 2006.
§
"Life lived entirely in grief is not a life that's truly lived. Creative people grieve as anyone else does, but they also want to find ways to create greater meaning and inspiration out of that experience."
-- James Bundy, dean of the School of Drama and artistic director of the Yale Repertory Theatre, "Life and Death," Hartford Courant, Sept. 24, 2006.
§
"You're at a hard point when you are working in the footlights of a charismatic person and begin to think the reflective glow is your own.''
-- Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, the Lester Crown Professor in the Practice of Management, "Too Big for Your Boss," The New York Times, Sept. 24, 2006.
§
"You won't go from 600 pounds to Brad Pitt."
-- Dr. Robert L. Bell, assistant professor of surgery, noting that patients who've had bariatric surgery to lose weight will need plastic surgery later to remove excess skin, "Extra Baggage: Plastic Surgery To Trim Loose Skin Can Be Needed After Big Weight Loss," New Haven Register, Sept. 24, 2006.
§
"It's one thing to borrow a painting or drawing and tack it to a wall. It's quite another thing to place objects weighing over a thousand pounds on the patio. ... Just finding someone who specializes in moving art of large size and mass was a test."
-- Gary Haller, the Becton Professor of Engineering and Applied Science and Chemistry, on the challenges of mounting an exhibition of sculptures by George R. Anthonisen, on view through Nov. 20 at Jonathan Edwards College, "Bronze Beauties," CTCentral. §
"[The Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection] sets the clean-up standard for a potentially harmful substance at the level at which, if you were to eat 200 milligrams of your soil (about the weight of a multivitamin) every day for the first six years of your life, and then 100 milligrams per day for the next 24 years, you would have a one-in-a-million chance of developing cancer during your lifetime. ... [L]et's ask them to set them at a more reasonable level. That way the millions of dollars now being wasted to clean up soil that poses no real risk could be devoted to cleaner air, cleaner water and to projects that really improve the life, health and environment of those of us who live in Connecticut. After all, our goal as citizens should be to have an environment that is safe for ourselves and our children, not dirt that is clean enough to eat."
-- Keith Darden, assistant professor of political science, in his article, "Overly Strict Standards Waste Money On Cleanup," Hartford Courant, Sept. 27, 2006.
§
"Too little testosterone is bad, too much is bad but the right amount is perfect. ... We can show that when you have high levels of steroids, you have high testosterone and that can destroy the nerve cells. We know that when you lose brain cells you lose function."
-- Barbara Ehrlich, professor of pharmacology and physiology, "Excess Testosterone Kills Brain Cells: Study," Reuters, Sept. 26, 2006.
§
"People think about wrinkle treatment, in terms of sort of vanity or looking better, but some people may have cosmetic defects in their faces because of injuries. And then there's another new set of patients who are patients with HIV, who are treated with these new miracle drugs that are keeping the virus under control. But one of the side effects of one of the classes of drugs is that it sometimes causes shrinkage of the fat deposits in the face. And these people can wind up with sort of gaunt looking faces. And so one of the new [FDA-approved wrinkle treatment] products is specifically intended, in fact, to fill that gauntness out."
-- Dr. Sydney Spiesel, associate clinical professor of pediatrics and clinical professor of nursing, "FDA Approves New Treatments for Wrinkles," "Day to Day," National Public Radio, Oct. 2, 2006.
§
"Tokyo and Beijing need to understand that their respective futures, as well as that of Asia as a whole, lie in joining hands -- rather than fueling existing tensions."
-- Michael R. Auslin, associate professor of history, in his article, "A Resurgent Japan," The Wall Street Journal Asia, Sept. 27, 2006.
§
"['The Boy with the Pipe,' which recently sold for $100 million] is not a picture that makes Picasso Picasso... in that sense the valuation of the market may have nothing to do with valuation of the art history. The truth of the matter is that most of all money likes to talk about itself [while] art is able to talk about the world, how it is perceived, how the world is made by visual language, how forms are culturally acquired and transformed. Art talks about as many things as an artist can possibly think of."
-- Robert Storr, professor of painting and dean of the School of Art, "Art and the Market," St. Petersburg Times (Russia), Sept. 29, 2006.
§
"The semi-privatizations have turned out to be the only way that the Chinese government can really shake things up and remove the entrenched interests in some of these state-owned banks. [The banks] will never be ready unless they are forced to take the challenge."
-- Zhiwu Chen, professor of finance, on the world's biggest initial public offerings, on China's Big Four banks, "The Chinese Bank Puzzle; The World's Largest Public Offering Conjures Up Images of the Internet-Boom Gold Rush as Analysts Warn All That Glitters ...," The Globe and Mail, Sept. 30, 2006.
§
"A cure for spinal cord injury may not be total and may not be next year. But you don't need a full cure to be very useful."
-- Dr. Stephen Waxman, the Bridget M. Flaherty Professor of Neurology, director of the Neuroscience and Regeneration Research Center and chair of the Department of Neurology, "Good News About Nerves," New Haven Register, Oct. 1, 2006.
§
"The whole concept of [the birth of a stillborn child] being public is a very new concept relative to the history of childbirth. Up until the 1970s, babies that were stillborn were buried in un-marked graves and families weren't allowed to grieve. That was thought to be a protective mechanism."
-- Dr. Michael R. Berman, clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology, "Once Private, A Loss Is Now Shared," St. Petersburg Times (Florida), Oct. 1, 2006.
§
"It's often an investment scam peddled to widows and orphans. These sorts of pieces of paper can be bought on eBay for $10."
-- K. Geert Rouwenhorst, professor of finance, on defaulted bonds that appear to be worth astronomical sums, based on the interest accrued, but are really of little value, "The Waiting Game," China Economic Review, Oct. 1, 2006.
§
"I don't think there's a universal prescription [for dealing with traumatic events]. Some will recover on their own and not even need support. The place where mental-health professionals come in around these situations is [helping] people to deal with persisting discomfort or distress on the one hand or problems that are interfering with their ability to carry on their daily functions."
-- Dr. John Krystal, the Robert L. McNeil Jr. Professor of Psychiatry, "The Accident That Broke Toledo's Heart," The Blade, Oct. 1, 2006.
§
"[The First-Year Building Project for School of Architecture students] is a unique part of their education, because it is hands-on. Students learn how to problem-solve -- deal with the sheetrockers and the plumbers -- that they can't just draw something and not deal with the consequences of it being made."
-- Paul Brouard, critic and director of the Building Project at the School of Architecture, "Yale Architects Build on Their Foundations," Orlando Sentinel, Oct. 1, 2006.
T H I S
com, Sept. 23, 2006.
W E E K ' SS T O R I E S
Medical School receives $57.3 million NIH grant
Medical School receives $11.5 million to improve cancer diagnosis . . .
Museum technicians to show their own artworks at Open Studios
Student designs creative alternative to traditional construction fencing
MORE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE NEWS
Grant supports work predicting outcomes in cancer patients
High testosterone kills nerve cells, says study
Team learns why leptin has powerful effect on appetite
New biomarker predicts survival in colorectal cancer
Proteins shown to have surprising effects on autoimmune disease
Relationship between stress and disease to be explored
Conference looks at literature's power to ease children's fears
Study: Myo1f has key role in mobilizing immune system
Study explores cost-effectiveness of using prizes in drug therapy
Heart studies often don't include kidney patients at high riskLevin, Zedillo discuss the role of UNESCO at Paris event
'Women and Globalization' will be the topic of discussion . . .
Marketing executives and scholars to discuss latest trends
Australia's history and people are focus of film
Exhibit features paintings of England by Venetian artist 'Canaletto'
Lecture will examine the U.N. and 21st-century challenges
Lab talk
Play reading and talk will explore the romantic life of Benjamin Franklin
Tanner Lectures and related discussion to focus on humanities
'Crafting a Life' is the theme of this year's Law School reunions
Student research on early French songs culminates in . . .
Mutual interests
ALL gallery after-party celebrates artists in its newest exhibit and in CWOS
Campus Notes
Yale Books in Brief
Bulletin Home|Visiting on Campus|Calendar of Events|In the News
Bulletin Board|Classified Ads|Search Archives|Deadlines
Bulletin Staff|Public Affairs|News Releases|
E-Mail Us|Yale Home