Author: jplucas

Quoted: At home, Norwayâ??s newspapers this month are touting the current Olympic medal rankingsâ??and also past ones. “Letâ??s see, this newspaper [the Aftenposten] says itâ??s Norway 297 to 244 for the U.S.,” Peggy Hager, a University of Wisconsin Norwegian lecturer, said this week in an interview from her office, where she was perusing Norwegian Web sites.

Quoted: “Often parents change their minds,” said Dr. Daniel Williams, assistant professor of urology at University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Although the proposed meter wouldnâ??t be as useful to University of Wisconsin-Madison admissions officials as class rank, said Tom Reason, the universityâ??s interim director of admissions, it is better than nothing.

Quoted: “Even if you manage your lifestyle very well, and you avoid all the trigger factors, most patients will still get these headaches because itâ??s a genetic predisposition to get these headaches,” said Dr. Roland Brilla, of UW Health.

Quoted: Amaud Johnson, a member of the Parents of African American Students at Franklin and a UW-Madison creative writing professor who regularly lends his teaching skills in the classroom of his first-grade son, Hayden.

Quoted: “There are humans today who are more different from each other in phenotype [physical characteristics],” says John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin. He has studied differences in the DNA of modern human populations to understand the rate of evolutionary change in Homo sapiens. Many of the differences between a Neanderthal clone and a modern human would be due to genetic changes our species has undergone since Neanderthals became extinct. “In the last 30,000 years we count about 2,500 to 3,000 events that resulted in positive functional changes [in the human genome],” says Hawks. Modern humans, he says, are as different from Homo sapiens who lived in the Neolithic period 10,000 years ago, as Neolithic people would have been from Neanderthals.

Quoted: “The hot dog is probably the number one food kids choke on. It would make sense to work with manufacturers … to strategize to see how it could be designed to be safer,” says Nan Peterson, Safe Kids Coalition Coordinator at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Quoted: Dr. Norman Fost, a pediatrician and ethicist at the University of Wisconsin, had a similar reaction.

Research by the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, which is housed at UW-Madison.

Quoted: David E. Schultz, a professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, said such an argument acknowledges a person committed a criminal act, but that circumstances could justify reducing the seriousness of the charge.

Quoted: If children are to relate positively to others, they must feel secure themselves and â??have a secure attachment to another person,â? said Carolyn Zahn-Waxler, a psychologist at the University of Wisconsin. Infants and young children whose own distress is ignored, scorned or, worse yet, punished, can quickly become distrustful of their environment and feel unsafe.

Quoted: James Stein, director of preventative cardiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says Avandia has no proven benefits over other medicines. “Removal of this drug from the market is long overdue,” Stein says. “It does not do the public any good to have it around.” Actos, from Takeda, lowers blood sugar equally well without the heart risk, he says. Avandia sales have dropped from a peak of $3.6 billion to $1.2 billion.

Quoted: But fatigue is the price Madison officials and residents must pay if the city insists on sustaining its inclusionary process for city approvals, said Barry Burden, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: “In a free society,” said Donald Downs, a First Amendment scholar at UW-Madison, “you are going to get that rough and tumble.”

Quoted: Michele LaVigne, a UW-Madison criminal law professor, said attorneys often know a judgeâ??s opinion on certain issues.