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Departments
 There's a thread linking two of this issue's feature stories, which document the vibrancy of campus religious life and the appeal of Teach For America. |
 A frustrating path for women in medicine |
 Engineering lessons, leadership issues, lacrosse-coverage weaknesses |
Water use reduced,
athletics reviewed,
poetry promoted,
banked blood scrutinized;
Q&A: the weighty matters of diet, exercise, and media messages;
Campus Observer: nap time |
 Book Notes: Syrian culture, Cuban character, the history of everyplace, and more |
Reveling in Homecoming,
launching a book discussion,
focusing on alumnae,
celebrating a writer and teacher;
Career Corner: dealing with disappointment;
Retrospective: what's in a yearbook's name;
mini-profiles: immersed in mediation,
inspired by the blues,
hooked on handball |
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"The Fed may not be responsible for protecting individuals and institutions from the consequences of their actions, but it is responsible for protecting the rest of us from the risk of a systemic collapse of our increasingly interconnected financial system."
—Steven Schwarcz, Stanley A. Star Professor of law and business, on the need for the Federal Reserve to consider financial markets, and not just banks, when setting policy, in the Baltimore Sun
"We didn't know anything about the effects of high-impact activities when we were doing them. We didn't have good running shoes. We didn't understand the importance of strength."
—Claude T. Moorman III '83, director of sports medicine, on the rise in joint-replacement surgery among baby boomers, in Newsweek
"Nothing would reside that long, unless it was so large it couldn't get out of the stomach or it was trapped in the intestine."
—Rodger Liddle, professor of medicine, dispelling the myth that gum takes seven years to digest, in Scientific American |
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