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"[I] just knew she was going to be an Olympian some day. There was no doubt in my mind."

Bob Rydze, UI diving coach, on former Hawkeye diver Nancilea Underwood Foster, who will represent the United States in Beijing this month in the women’s 3-meter springboard (Des Moines Register, Aug. 4).

"This new technology takes the art out of it, and makes it a science."

Colleen Kennedy, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology in the Carver College of Medicine, on the LUMA Cervical Imaging System, a technology being called the most significant advance in more than 50 years in detecting cervical cancer. Current methods require a doctor to examine tissue samples for abnormalities. (Des Moines Register, July 30).

"You could get depressed."

Michael Lewis-Beck, professor of political science in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and one of the authors of The American Voter Revisited, which revealed that the majority of American voters have few issues in mind when discussing voting and tend to inherit party allegiances from their parents (Washington Post, July 24).