"We're trying to reshape the environment in which students make choices. We're trying to increase student awareness of and intolerance for the second-hand effects of other people's drinking by drawing attention to the problems excessive drinking inflicts on the entire community."
--Tim Marchell, director of substance abuse services at University Health Services, talking about how Cornell is tackling the problem of student drinking in The New York Times, April 6.
"If there is an all-out nuclear war, it is the end of civilization."
--Hans Bethe, Nobel laureate and emeritus professor of physics, discussing the making and aftermath of the nuclear bomb on the ABC-TV series "The Century," April 1.
"Are you kidding? It's like seeing your rock band on the cover of Rolling Stone!"
--Paul Sherman, professor of neurobiology and behavior, on the portrayal of naked mole-rat scientists in the Errol Morris film "Fast, Cheap and Out of Control," in the March 1999 Equinox magazine.
"This ridge-like feature, combined with the measurements of high density, suggests that Eros is a homogeneous body rather than a collection of rubble."
--Joseph Veverka, professor of astronomy, in a Feb. 8 Reuters story about the first "close-up" images of the asteroid Eros.
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