鈥淭his bill is unquestionably the most important step taken in this country to control greenhouse emissions since 1998, when the Clinton administration signed the Kyoto Protocol.鈥�
New York Times leader on Californian legislation that would force car makers to limit carbon dioxide emissions (8 July)
鈥淣one of us wants to be one of the eight extra women [in 10,000] who may get breast cancer as a result of taking HRT, or one of the seven who has a heart attack. But nor do we want to be the one who lights up like a Christmas tree during an important business meeting.鈥�
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Writer Anne Summers on the 鈥渉ysterical reporting鈥� of the discontinuation of a US hormone replacement therapy trial (Sydney Morning Herald, 15 July)
鈥淪hould a face be transplanted? If [it is] the only effective way of treating these severely disfigured patients, then doctors would have a duty to use the technique.鈥�
The Lancet (6 July)
鈥淭he coming attack has nothing to do with Saddam Hussein鈥檚 鈥榳eapons of mass destruction鈥�, if these exist at all. The reason is that America wants a more compliant thug to run the world鈥檚 second greatest source of oil.鈥�
Extract from John Pilger鈥榮 book The New Rulers of The World (The Observer, 14 July)
鈥淪chool science can be so boring it puts young people off science for life.鈥�
British MP Ian Gibson, launching a parliamentary committee report (11 July)