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The following quotes from Penn professors and others appeared in publications across the country and around the world.
"You have to support the consequences of your policy."
--Parris Chang, a member of Taiwan's national legislature and professor of political science, commenting on possible tensions between the United States and China if the American-supported democracy in Taiwan decides to resist Chinese rule later this year (Atlanta Journal, Sunday, Feb. 2).
"Immigration is happening quickly, but assimilation takes time."
--Douglas Massey, a University of Pennsylvania professor, in a story about segregation of Latin Americans and Asians in much of California (Sacramento Bee, Monday, Feb. 3).
"Why this society puts up with burdening a family both with a dying child and economic obstacles is beyond me."
--Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics, talking about the high cost of health care, especially for terminally ill children who need hospice care (Atlanta Journal, Sunday, Feb. 9).
"It's an amazing treatment of health care as a commodity--like grain or milk or meat."
--Dr. Alan Hillman, on a federal plan to pay New York state hospitals not to train new medical residents (New York Times, Tuesday, Feb. 18).
"It'll work. ... That's not necessarily to say that you should have one,though.''
--Robert Inman, professor of finance at Wharton, talking about a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution (Investor's Business Daily, Wednesday, Feb. 19).
"We're in the process of moving from an era of parents having babies to an era where they make babies."
--Glenn McGee, bioethicist with Penn's Center for Bioethics, on the ability to control the genes of developing babies and the future of genetic technology (Reuters North American Wire, Tuesday, Feb. 25).
"The Russians put a spaceship into orbit and instantly Mrs. Jones in the third grade was blamed for our presumed scientific lag in technology."
--Richard Gibboney, professor of education, talking about the relationships between the quality of our nation's education and the state of technology and the economy (New York Times, Sunday, March 16).
"I think these companies are staring at an economic catastrophe."
--Geoffrey Hazard, law professor and director of the American Law Institute, talking about the legal battle that many big tobacco companies are now facing (Los Angeles Times, Monday, March 17).
--assembled by Sunil Kumar
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