History books have been largely unkind to Burns, and though not alive today to defend himself, readers can now develop a sense of his side of the story through Inside the Nixon Administration: The Secret Diary of Arthur Burns, edited by author and emeritus Indiana University professor, Robert Ferrell.

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Michael Zemel, a co-author of the study and professor emeritus at the University of Tennessee's Department of Nutrition, says three daily servings of dairy containing whey and its nutrients could help guard against inflammation.

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"I would be very happy if Medicare would put a moratorium on any invasive carotid treatments" in people without stroke symptoms, said Wesley S. Moore, UCLA's chief emeritus of vascular surgery and author of a leading text on vascular and endovascular surgery.

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"This paper confirms that radiation, even in relatively low doses, does lead to risk" of certain cancers, said Alan Craft, emeritus chair at Newcastle University and an author of the paper.

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Though privatizing the rock art has been controversial, John Parkington, an emeritus professor of archaeology at the University of Cape Town and author of a 2003 book on the Cederberg paintings, argues that it has been a boon.

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The author of 25 books on psychology and family, Dr. Robinson, professor emeritus at University of North Carolina at Charlotte estimates that about one-quarter of the population could be classified as workaholic, though it comes in varying degrees.

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Professor Dawkins is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, as well as being the author of The God Delusion, and Sir David is a professor at Princeton University in the United States.

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