"The status quo [in sizing and apparel] is very difficult for women. The industry is finally waking up. The whole level of frustration with clothes shopping has increased."
--Susan Ashdown, professor of textiles and apparel, discussing women and sizing of clothing in the Chicago Tribune, Jan. 7, and San Francico Chronicle, Jan. 12, by way of the New York Times News Service.
"The farmers can adapt. But those adaptations could be costly."
--David Wolfe, associate professor of fruit and vegetable sciences, discussing the effects of global warming in The New York Times, Dec. 11.
"This [stock market] boom has been so long and so good that it has reached down to virtually every person in society. Almost all the able-bodied people who are looking for jobs can find them."
--Richard Burkhauser, professor of policy analysis and management, discussing the stock market boom in Investor's Business Daily, Jan. 19.
"It's almost unprecedented that a pathogen could cross the terrestrial-ocean boundary."
--Drew Harvell, associate professor of ecology and systematics, talking about infection of Caribbean coral reefs by a soil-borne fungus disease, on National Public Radio's "Living on Earth," Jan. 29.
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