"The preoccupation with the idea that we are being targeted doesn't simply come out of a sense of paranoia. It's something that is based on concrete experiences."-- James E. Turner, director of the Africana Studies and Research Center, discussing alleged conspiracies against African Americans, in the Los Angeles Times, Oct. 22.
"Pickup games have disappeared. I had found that in the mid-'70s, not that long ago, really, there were about 20 games children played on their own that were variations of baseball. I would say that relatively few of those, if any, remain. If you see a group of youngsters outside and performing a spontaneous activity, they might be bike-riding or skateboarding, but they certainly won't be playing baseball."-- Edward C. Devereaux, professor emeritus of human development and family studies, discussing changes in the ways Americans play games, in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Oct. 16.
"The logic and beauty of the music always appealed to me."-- Neal Zaslow, the Herbert Gussman Professor of Music, discussing Mozart in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Oct. 20.
"What might have to change is the way scientific evidence is presented to the jury. Maybe there's a way to present such a case more cleanly."-- Bruce V. Lewenstein, associate professor of communication, commenting on the O.J. Simpson trial in the Dallas Morning News, Oct. 3.
"Other cases of natural selection just don't jump out at most people. Most people would look at, say, two bird beaks and not be able to tell the difference between them. What's striking and what probably makes this example so famous is that these two moths look so strikingly different, and anyone can see the difference between them."-- Richard G. Harrison, professor and chair of the Section of Ecology and Systematics, on the evolutionary adaptation of wing color in moths, in the New York Times, Nov. 12.
"In any country, any community, there's no single cause of nutrition problems. That's why communities must be trained to make that local diagnosis and take proper action."-- David L. Pelletier, associate professor of nutritional sciences, discussing world hunger in an Associated Press wire story, Nov. 13.
"When a publisher would get interested, I'd tell him not to send it to a classicist for review because he would be sure to hate it."-- Martin Bernal, professor of government, discussing his controversial book Black Athena in the November edition of the academic journal Lingua franca.
"The horror that many people have is sitting at home in front of a screen -- and never leaving. That's not what will or should happen. Virtually no one is or should be working at home all the time."-- Franklin Becker, professor and director of international workplace studies, discussing the trend for more home offices and workers working at home, in the Chicago Tribune, Oct. 20.