Internet savvy
Tom Reichert, who teaches advertising at UGA, was quoted in the L.A. Times in an article highlighting the ability of Internet merchants to bypass traditional advertising standards. The article mentions a French clothier whose online ads show naked people.

“One of the things that is kind of intriguing about it is that. . . on the Web, you don’t have to worry about standards boards. You are getting rid of all your lines of censorship,” said Reichert, also the author of The Erotic History of Advertising.

Telecommuting blues
The Austin, Texas American-Statesman quoted UGA housing and consumer economic professor Douglas Bachtel in an article about telecommuting in the increasingly busy American workplace.

“People who can work at home have to be very careful or they will work themselves into a hole. People are spending an inordinate amount of time doing this, and the people who are doing it are the higher-educated folks,” he said.

Changing direction
The North Carolina-based News and Observer turned to Han Park, director of the Center for the Study of Global Issues at UGA, for an expert analysis of North Korea. He was quoted as saying, “North Korea’s isolation is not new, but they are extremely concerned. It’s a matter of degree. . . We haven’t given the North a face-saving way of backing down from the brinkmanship that it’s pursuing. We’re certainly heading in the wrong direction.”

The other nuclear struggle
In an article for London’s Sunday Times, Anupam Shrivastava, director of UGA’s Center for International Trade and Security, shed light on the changing nature of the years-old conflict between India and Pakistan in the nuclear age.

“Unlike Pakistan, India has a no first strike policy. It completely changes India’s military planning because having plutonium gives Pakistan the option of deploying from land, sea or air. For Pakistan it’s a quantum leap. It gives them options to target all of India,” he said.

Spreading the law
Michael Kline and Milind Dongre, UGA law students interning in Guyana, were quoted in the Kaieteur News.

“There’s so much work to be done here, the action never stops. . . We get to sit with lawyers, ask questions and clarify things,” Kline said of his experience through the International Externship program of the University of Guyana. Said Dongre: “Back home we will never be allowed to practice like this. . . they are actually thrown into the system right after leaving law school. . . It’s good to be exposed to all different areas of law, getting a taste of everything including trial work.”

Diplomacy first
A columnist for the Salt Lake Tribune quotes Gary Bertsch, international affairs professor, in a story decrying the alleged machismo of the Bush administration leading to wartime mistakes.

“‘The Bush administration has relied on hard power (militarism) rather than diplomacy (soft power) and it has been very costly. It is reshaping the view that the rest of the world has of the United States as a responsible power,” Bertsch said.

Don’t let ’em bite
Dan Suiter, an associate professor of entomology, told the Associated Press, “It’s no secret that bedbugs are making a comeback,” in a recent article about the menaces.