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"Good advice is moderation--less than two to three cups a day.
But that's not based on data. That's clinical horse sense."

     Epidemiologist Michael Klag in the March 18 USA TODAY, on
findings in a 44-year study linking coffee drinking and high
blood pressure.
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"We'll donate our punitive damage fees. We're prepared to pledge
them to Johns Hopkins Hospital and University Hospital." 

     University trustee, attorney and Orioles owner Peter
Angelos, in the March 19 Sun column by Michael Olesker, answering
critics who argued Angelos would most benefit from a bill before
the Maryland Legislature, which would have increased the chances
for collecting punitive damages in a lawsuit.
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"We have technology that gives us a little piece of information,
but what we do with that information and how we follow up is
everything."

     School of Public Health associate professor Jim Tielsch, in
the March 18 Sun, on the problem of providing eye exams to
schoolchildren whose poverty often prevents them from getting
needed eyeglasses.
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"Ask a group of 80-year-olds and 20-year-olds to phone a
particular number on a particular day, and the 80-year-olds will
perform far better."

     Associate professor of geriatric neurology Claudia H. Kawas,
in the March 17 Parade Magazine, on the upside of aging brains,
which hold larger vocabularies, command a greater understanding
of written materials, contain more ability to reason and overall
display greater wisdom.
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"For its next president, Hopkins is examining an MRI wizard who
can see through anything."

     Sun editor Dan Berger in the paper's March 18 issue, on the
university's search for a president to succeed William C.
Richardson.
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