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:

"People who don't sleep enough are more stressed, moodier and seek stimulation, all of which can lead to excessive eating."

--James Maas, professor of psychology, in the April 1999 Shape magazine's "10 new and effective ways to drop those stubborn last 10 pounds."

"The cheese becomes chewy, like bubble gum."

--Lloyd Metzger, who graduated in December with a doctorate in food science, talking about his experiments on low-fat cheese and describing what enzymes do to the protein chains in the cheese during storage, in the March 1999 issue of Popular Science.

"For Intel, the ads want to create respect for technology, a sense of the latest and the greatest. Successful advertising generates brand name or corporate name awareness with positive associations."

--J. Edward Russo, professor of marketing and behavioral science, commenting on Intel Corp.'s $300 million dollar marketing program, its biggest ever, to introduce its Pentium III microprocessor, in Bloomberg Business News, Feb. 18.

"What scares me about the amphibian crisis and the thing that we should all worry about is that it snuck up on us. All vertebrates operate on somewhat similar systems. We all have the same enzymes. We have hearts. So this could happen to us, too."

--Harry W. Greene, professor of ecology and systematics, commenting on the disappearance of frogs in the wild, in the San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 11.

"Some of the side effects of Draconian drug laws are to increase single parenthood, family poverty, foster care, and child abuse and neglect."

--Charles McClintock, professor of policy analysis and management and associate dean of the College of Human Ecology, in a letter to the editor of The New York Times, March 10.

"I am not sure what Republicans can do now to reaffirm the worthiness of the impeachment effort. But they must find ways to remind the public that Clinton's conduct makes it impossible to trust him and therefore impossible for Republicans to cooperate with him on any serious legislative venture."

--Jeremy Rabkin, associate professor of government, in a commentary in The Weekly Standard, Feb. 22.