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“This study is long overdue.”

Michael L. Perlis, director of the Sleep Research Laboratory, commenting in the Washington Post on new research presented at the annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies in Minneapolis. The study found that sleep disorders strike more than a third of police officers, many of whom experience chronic sleep loss because of ever-shifting schedules, increasing the risk of accidents and injuries.

Christian Science Monitor

“You can have another team come in from the outside and say, ‘We think we can make more of the business opportunities that this firm faces.’” —Clifford Smith, professor at the Simon School of Business, talking about CEO turnover in 2006. A record number of CEOs departed their firms last year.

Chronicle of Higher Education

“You’re more likely to see more mergers, you’re more likely to see more colleges not making it, and you’re more likely to see more crises.” —President Joel Seligman, discussing the decrease in government spending in higher education and public demands for more accountability.

Forbes

“We probably don’t want to tinker with it in flu, for instance, but we may want to tinker with those targets for people who have some chronic illness or autoimmune diseases.”—Wilfred Pigeon, assistant professor of psychiatry, considering therapeutic approaches to illness-linked fatigue, which recent research suggests results from biochemical reactions in the immune system.

Washington Post

“I would certainly try to avoid anything that smelled like new PVC (the new shower curtain smell), and I would (and have) advise my kids to do the same, particularly when pregnant or considering pregnancy.”—Shanna Swan, professor of obstetrics and gynecology, in an article about the dangers of phthalates, a group of chemical compounds used to make plastics. Studies of phthalates have shown a link between pregnant women’s exposure to the chemicals and developmental problems in boys’ reproductive systems.

ABC News

“Most people who see it will equate it with a brush with death. Seizure is one of the most frightening experiences to look at.”—Giuseppe Erba, professor of neurology, discussing a seizure that U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts had this summer.