Rochester Quotes
“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.
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