Jonathan Alter: "From the start Obama was boxed in not only by the mess that Bush left him.." [The Promise] Books dld.bz/P6DR

David Brooks: "Researchers have made strides in understanding the human mind.." [The Social Animal] Books dld.bz/RNMD

Dr. Jeff Brenner's team reduced medical costs at the hospital by 56%. [NPRFreshAir Books] repschrader RepMikeHonda dld.bz/JgwB

BarackObama: "Or worse, I sound like I'm trying to hide from myself." [Dreams from My Father] dld.bz/N3KY

Barack Obama: "I see the split-second adjustments they have to make, the searching of my eyes..." [Dreams from My Father] dld.bz/N3KY

The idea is that you improve care for expensive patients, and you'll end up saving the country a lot of money. alfranken dld.bz/JgwB

Joshua Foer: "As an experiment, I decided to take Adderall for a week." [#Moonwalking with Einstein] Science Books dld.bz/PMKK

Evgeny Morozov: "In the days when the Internet was young, our hopes were high." [The Net Delusion] Books dld.bz/RfZP

Neurologist Oliver Sacks has spent his career examining patients struggling to survive with phantom-limb syndrome. dld.bz/JgwB

Brian Greene: "... laws governing the parallel universes." [The Hidden Reality] Books dld.bz/RVp4