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Because of their expertise and reputations, members of the UB faculty and staff are sought out by reporters who quote them in print, broadcast and online publications around the world. Here is a sampling of recent media coverage in which UB is mentioned prominently.
"Any number of Wild West parks were tried in the late 1960s and the early 1970s. None of them lasted very long at all, and it's for all the reasons we've said—not a broad enough demographic appeal. The re-enactments, if they try them, tend to be hokey, and when you compare that to today's virtual reality experience, it pales by comparison."
Judith Adams-Volpe, director of communication and development in the UB Libraries and an amusement park researcher, in an article in The Wichita Eagle on reasons behind the closing of Wild West World, a local amusement park.
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"People can believe what they want, but there's no research to substantiate claims of human benefit. The cooking process will destroy all the protein and the hormones....Drying it out or freezing it would destroy other things."
Mark Kristal, professor of psychology, in an article in USA Today on women ingesting their own placentas after giving birth.
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"Maybe it's a backlash against feminism."
Elayne Rapping, professor of American studies, in an article in the Cincinnati Enquirer on the sudden popularity of the name "Chuck."
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"Sticking a straw in the Great Lakes is not a solution to Phoenix's water problems. Maybe it's time to really think about what constitutes need and stop spending money to build carrying capacity in places that don't have it by nature, and start investing in places that do....You're going to have 150 million people living in at least seven of the major regions that don't have water, don't have carrying capacity, can't feed themselves. It's an ecological disaster waiting to happen. So there's a good reason to think that people should come back to the Northeast, where we have the carrying capacity, and have the water."
Robert Shibley, director of the Urban Design Project, in an article in the Toronto Star on the sustainability of booming cities like Phoenix in the drought-stricken Southwest vs. water-rich cities like Cleveland and Buffalo with huge population declines.
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"It may not fit the times as well as it used to, [but] it must be doing something right. There is obviously still an audience."
Elayne Rapping, professor of American studies, in an article in the New York Daily News on the premier of "The Simpsons Movie."
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"I think a lot more work needs to be done on how ecotourism impacts the animals.... This is a very popular tourist site in China. Millions of people come to see the mountains, and tens of thousands each year come to look at the monkeys. They might have on a busy day three or four viewings of the monkeys, and there might be more than a hundred people watching them at once."
Carol Berman, professor of anthropology, in an article in National Geographic News on the skyrocketing infant mortality rate among Tibetan macaques as a result of ecotourism in the Mount Huangshan Scenic Area in China.
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