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"This suggests that salt need and cravings may be linked to the same brain pathways as those related to drug addiction and abuse."

Kim Johnson, professor of psychology and integrative physiology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and in pharmacology in the Carver College of Medicine, on his research that shows that salt is a natural antidepressant (FOXNews.com, March 11).

“Part of progress might very well be more leisure, shorter hours, more time to live.”

Benjamin Hunicutt, professor of leisure studies in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, on post-World War II cultural shifts that have increased the number of hours Americans work (NPR, March 7).

"Our hope ... is you might be able to give a single dose of a chemotherapy agent and within a day or two figure out whether the tumor is going to respond."

Michael Graham, professor of nuclear medicine technology in the Carver College of Medicine, on experimental medical imaging that reveals in just a few days whether chemotherapy is effective (MSNBC, March 4).

"Our market is still hiring. Are people hiring vigorously? No. But there are things happening."

Joan Murrin, director of the Dual Career Network, quoted in a story about the difficulty of finding work for trailing spouses because of the poor economy (Chronicle of Higher Education, March 3).

"Until there was a freeze in the credit markets, Madoff could continue to get away with what he was doing because you just keep borrowing and paying off the loan. But suddenly when there is no more money coming in, you can't pay it out, and it starts to show.”

Hillary Sale, professor in the College of Law, on the wave of recent scandals involving the alleged theft of money by Wall Street money manager Bernard Madoff and others (Des Moines Register, Feb. 27).