At a February 25 Pierson College master's tea to kick off Eating Disorders Awareness Week, Self magazine editor Lucy Danziger told students about her publication's efforts to counter the fashion-magazine image of "morose, skinny, deprived models." Danziger said women are too focused on weight. "You can run every day, but you're still not going to look like Gwyneth Paltrow," she said. "You should go for a run not because you don't want to get fat, but because it makes you feel good."

Former psychology department chairman Alan Kazdin has been appointed director of the Yale Child Study Center, where he has held a joint appointment since he came to Yale in 1989. School of Medicine dean David Kessler called Kazdin "one of the country's foremost authorities on childhood disorders and their diagnosis, assessment, and treatment." Kazdin, who also directs the Yale Child Conduct Clinic, oversaw an expansion of the psychology department during his 1997-2000 chairmanship. He succeeds Donald Cohen, who died last year.

John Morrell '86, one of the engineers behind the Segway Human Transporter, showed off the product in a lecture at Davies Auditorium on March 5. Morrell said he looks for "smart and lazy" people for his engineering team, "because they are constantly trying to figure out how to spend the least amount of effort to get to the answer." Morrell's lecture was part of a series celebrating the sesquicentennial of Yale engineering.

Speaking to a large crowd at St. Thomas More Catholic Chapel on April 8, broadcast journalist Cokie Roberts said that it won't be easy for women to become Catholic priests. "Nobody relinquishes power," said Roberts, who is a practicing Catholic. "You have to grab it and fight like the devil for it." Roberts said she was "appalled" by the involvement of Catholic bishops in covering up cases of sexual abuse involving priests, but she also criticized the way the media cover religion -- focusing, she said, more on scandal than faith.

David Sedaris, NPR commentator and author of Me Talk Pretty One Day, launched his spring tour in Woolsey Hall on April 2, delighting the audience with new stories about a perennial topic -- his comically dysfunctional family. In a yarn involving his brother's near drowning, Sedaris tries to summon up skills learned in water safety class. Instead, he recalls the god-like lifeguard asking for resuscitation volunteers, and himself, as a boy, secretly hoping, "Choose me!" But, as Sedaris said, "These are not the sort of memories that save lives."

On April 3, World Bank president James Wolfensohn gave the inaugural address for the School of Management's International Institute for Corporate Governance. "I'm grateful you're not burning me in effigy," said Wolfensohn, whose organization has been the target of antiglobalization protests. A better system of governance is "an essential element in achieving a more equitable distribution of income in the developing world. Where there's neither hope nor opportunity, people of ill will can flourish."

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