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Published: October 20, 2005

"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.