A Yes! Weekly story about how military bases affect state economies quotes UGA history professor James C. Cobb, who said the concentration of bases in the South has spurred a demand for goods and services to support those bases, but contracts for weapons development and other activities that would stimulate capital investment and create high-paying jobs have typically gone elsewhere.

“It’s likely to follow the pattern of states outside of the South getting the most lucrative contracts,” he said. “Most of the systems are pretty specialized and tend to be something coming off the research board. That’s going to benefit states with a research and development infrastructure.”

An L.A. Daily News report on cutbacks at the Food and Drug Administration and its effects on the ability to catch tainted food quotes Michael Doyle, director of UGA’s Center for Food Safety.

“We have a food safety crisis on the horizon,” he said.

An Associated Press story quotes W. Keith Campbell, an associate professor of psychology, about research he co-authored about ubiquitous narcissism in present-day college students.

Although it has benefits, “Narcissism can also have very negative consequences for society, including the breakdown of close relationships with others,” Campbell said.

Steve Stice, a professor of animal science, was quoted in a Philadelphia Inquirer story about the safety of food made from cloned animals.

“I’d eat cloned meat or milk in a second,” he said.

A BusinessWeek article about Georgia farmers devoting more of their acreage to corn quotes John McKissick, director of UGA’s Center for Agribusiness and Economic Development.

“This. . . is the first time since 1996 that we have had this kind of alternative,” he said. “We’ve also got to recognize that opportunity also is a challenge.”

A Reuters story about the likelihood of the Supreme Court to hear a case involving how states tax bonds quotes Walter Hellerstein, a professor of taxation law.

Summing up the case, Hellerstein said, “Ohio says ‘x’, Kentucky says ‘y,’ and in our system only the Supreme Court can resolve this. They take that duty very seriously.”

An article in the New York Times Magazine quotes Zolinda Stoneman, director of UGA’s Institute on Human Development and Behavior. The article focuses on the changing views and practices of American families with disabled children.

“I’ve been in the field long enough to know a time that families were told that for the sake of their brothers and sisters, kids with disabilities should be institutionalized,” Stoneman said. In many cases, “that was just very misguided advice.”

A Chicago Tribune article about the nuclear material left over from the days of the U.S.S.R. quotes Igor Khripunov, a research professional and expert in nuclear and radioactive materials security at UGA.

The article centered on terrorists’ ability to obtain nuclear material from former Soviet sources. When it comes to protecting radioactive materials, the countries that once made up the Soviet Union are “the weakest and most dangerous link in the whole chain,” Khripunov said.