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"I fully expected, when I started, to find that children who were
referred would have very severe problems in adjustment. That's what all
the literature said."
David Sandberg, associate professor of psychiatry and
pediatrics, in an article in The New York Times magazine
on height and a child's social standing among schoolmates and the
controversy over the use of human growth hormone to make children
taller.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/16/magazine/16growth.html
"We're of one mind on security. What shows up clearly is that we
share a great deal, including an interest in creating a secure North
America."
Munroe Eagles, associate professor of political science, in
an article in Macleans magazine, Canada's closest
equivalent to Time or Newsweek, that looks at a poll
conducted by UB and SES Research in Ottawa that surveyed residents of
both countries on a wide range of issues, from national security to
energy policy, and showed the two nations defined more by their
similarities than their differences.
http://www.macleans.ca/topstories/
politics/article.jsp?content=20051017_113466_113466
"I think it's just posturing. Boeing is trying to look
friendlier."
David Pritchard, research associate at the Canada-United
States Trade Center within the Department of Geography, in an article in
the Chicago Tribune on the subsidy dispute between Boeing
and Airbus, and predictions of a settlement between the companies.
"(Blogs seem) threatening to those who are established in
academia, to financial interests and to...well, decorum."
Alex Halavais, assistant professor of communication, in an
article in the Oct. 7 issue of The Chronicle of Higher
Education on young academics without tenure and blogging.