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Kent Weeks
Living Legend of Egyptology
Archeologically, I would love to finish off this work, which I seriously doubt I'm going to be able to do in my lifetime now, the tomb is just so big. And we have a moral obligation, not just to leave this tomb in proper shape, but to finish the archeological database of the whole Valley of the Kings that started this project to begin with. That's going to be several years, and it's going to mean a lot of fundraising and all the rest of it to be done. But were that done, I would love to go off and excavate a site in Egypt that has fascinated me for years, a site called Coptos, which lies right at the mouth of a valley that connects the Nile River with the Red Sea, through which -- for the last probably ten- to 15,000 years -- major caravans, trading expeditions have traveled. It was the main route in Roman times to India. The quarries in this valley were the source of much of the stone used to build St. Peter's. In ancient times, it was the route to Somalia and to the spice markets of East Africa. In more recent times, it has been a major route of invasion and trade. This city, which goes back probably into the Neolithic period, lies right at the mouth of this valley, and I think is stratified layer upon layer with a history of Egypt for the last 10,000 years, and a history of Egypt's relations with foreign countries for the last 10,000 years. I think it could be a spectacular site.
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Andrew Weil
Integrative Medicine
If you have a patient with a bacterial pneumonia who's acutely ill and you put them in the hospital and give them intravenous antibiotics and 48 hours later they're out of danger, I think most people would interpret that as being that the antibiotic caused the cure. And what I'm asking people to do is to look at it a little differently. What the antibiotic does in that circumstance is to knock populations of germs down to a level where the immune system can take over and finish a job that it couldn't do because it was overwhelmed. And to me, that's a model for how our treatments work at their best. It's not that they work directly to produce a cure, they work indirectly by impinging on innate mechanisms of healing.
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Andrew Weil
Integrative Medicine
It is very clear now I think, including to deans of medical schools, that medical schools are no longer graduating physicians who are satisfying the needs of patients. Now what I would say patients want, based on my talking to lots and lots of patients, are that they want physicians who have the time and can take the time to sit down them, listen to them, explain in a language that they can understand the nature of their problems. And go over with them their options for treatment, who won't just push drugs and surgery as the only way of doing it. Who are at least conversant with nutritional influences on health. Who can answer intelligently questions about use of dietary supplements. Who are sensitive to mind/body interactions. Who will not laugh in your face when you bring up topics like Chinese medicine. Who will look at you as not just a physical body.
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Sanford Weill
Financier and Philanthropist
Ownership gets people to think like owners, to think that the company is really theirs. Really good ideas and innovative ideas come from the bottoms of organizations -- not really the tops of organizations -- where people are dealing directly with the customers and really understand what the market wants, rather than dictating what the market wants, where people can see the silly things that the chairman may be doing, or whatever, that's wasting a lot of money and there might be a better way to do it.
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