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Quoted: UW-Madison history professor Jeremi Suri said censure is a powerful, symbolic statement by a legislative body.  “What a legislature is doing when they censure one of their own is basically they are saying one of their colleagues has gone so far out of line, the person needs to be condemned above and beyond the normal course of debate.”Suri said censure amounts to other lawmakers formally distancing themselves from Wood.

UW-Madison political science professor Jon Pevehouse told WKOW27 News while lawmaker votes on Woodâ??s fate would be considered by voters come November, issues such as positions on health care could dwarf any stance on Woodâ??s punishment.

Quoted: UW-Madison Political Scientist David Canon says itâ??s typical for legislatures to put off making certain big decisions until the very end. One reason is strategic: to gain bargaining power. 

Isadore Fine shakes his head at the sight of some weeds. â??Oh my God, two dandelions. Iâ??ve got to get my spade,â? Fine exclaims in the garden outside his Shorewood Hills home, where visitors are welcome and the brilliant tulips are peaking this week. The garden attracted about 100 people on Sunday, said Fine, a 91-year-old professor emeritus of business at UW-Madison.

Quoted: Visitors to Warner Park on Monday asked why the geese couldnâ??t simply be relocated. Scott Craven, a University of Wisconsin professor of wildlife ecology said that idea wasnâ??t practical.

Quoted: Thongchai Winichakul is a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin. He says while Mr. Thaksin challenged the elites with his popularity, it was the yellow shirts and their supporters who brought the red shirts to the streets.  

Quoted: But Barry Orton, a University of Wisconsin-Madison telecommunications professor, said the deregulation would hurt elderly citizens who want to keep their landlines and some rural customers who have only one option for phone service. They wonâ??t have other options if their rates increase or their quality of service is poor, he said

Quoted: “Thatâ??s not a large number, but itâ??s still a major success story in terms of conservation of wild animals,” said Tobias Kuemmerle of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who led the new study.

Quoted: The Committee for Truth in Politics ads are a classic example of â??muddying the waters,â? says Ken Goldstein, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of the Wisconsin Advertising Project. But there are more ads of this type than ever, he says. â??Itâ??s very early, and itâ??s already very noisy and toxic.â?

Barry Orton, a University of Wisconsin-Madison telecommunications professor, said the deregulation would hurt elderly citizens who want to keep their landlines and some rural customers who have only one option for phone service.

Quoted: With about 730 participants, Keeps is relatively small; hormone research has been tough to finance in the post-W.H.I. years, and every scientist and physician Iâ??ve spoken to said there will never again be another hormone trial as costly and ambitious as the W.H.I. A second study, based in Los Angeles, called the Early Versus Late Intervention Trial With Estradiol, is following more than 600 women â?? comparing a group that has been post-menopausal for an average of 15 years and that is on estradiol or on a placebo with a second, younger group that is an average of three years post-menopausal. â??This is the age when we should really study estrogen,â? says Sanjay Asthana, a University of Wisconsin medical professor who is a designer of the cognition component of Keeps. â??People like me are really waiting to see what this data looks like. Either way. We need to know.â?

Quoted: The recession, meanwhile, may have exacerbated trends in inequality. The capital markets, points out Timothy Smeeding of the University of Wisconsin, have recovered more quickly than the housing or labour markets. This is troubling for the poor and the middle class, since homes represent a greater share of their wealth. Unemployment has been concentrated in Americaâ??s lower ranks. As the rich recover, poor and middle-class people may lag behind. Young workers may fare badly, too. Those who graduate in recessions have lower incomes in the long term, according to Lisa Kahn of Yale University.

“Tenacious parents who will not leave the examination room” are cited as a major barrier to routine screening for alcohol and drug use by pediatricians in the new teen alcohol screening policy. And what 13-year-old would want to tell Mom she pounded five Vodka Cruisers at a party? “We want to keep families involved,” Patricia Kokotailo, director of adolescent medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health told me, “but some things are very difficult for teenagers to express if itâ??s not confidential.”