Soundbites

Here is a sampling of quotations from Cornell University faculty, students and staff that have appeared recently in the national and international news media:

"It started, say, five years ago when a lot of information about the health benefits of cranberries came out. It helps prevent bladder infection, it has a lot of vitamin C and it also has antioxidants."

--Marvin Pritts, professor of horticulture, in a story about the production and price of cranberries, in The New York Times, Nov. 22.

"You can't move patients to a hospital 200 miles away."

--Richard Hurd, professor in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, commenting on the rise of unionization in the U.S. health-care industry, which, unlike the manufacturing sector, cannot move operations overseas to avoid workers who organize, in the Washington Post, Oct. 30.

"We must restore the vigor of American national politics rather than rebuild the current politics, and the best way is not bipartisanship but its virtual opposite: partisanship."

--Theodore J. Lowi, the John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions, in an op-ed piece in The New York Times, Dec. 3.

"Physicians who aren't addressing sleep as a health issue are missing an enormous opportunity to enhance their patients' health."

--James Maas, professor of psychology, giving advice in an article titled "10 Things Your Doctor May Not Tell You That Could Kill You," in the September issue of Glamour magazine.