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A senior British scientist on the risks of Morphotek鈥檚 plans to insert human cancer-causing genes into animals and plants to cause fast mutations, allegedly speeding discovery of new organisms (The Observer, London, 24 November)
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Security memo leaked from the Los Alamos National Laboratory on the $1.3 million in unsolved thefts of LANL computers, cameras and PDAs, which may contain sensitive information (USA Today, 21 November).
鈥淭hey love things they can measure. But you can鈥檛 see how many feet of safety culture you have and whether you鈥檝e come up shy.鈥�
David Lochbaum of the Union of Concerned 杏吧原创s on nuclear reactor engineers (The New York Times, 20 November)
鈥淭he plaintiffs鈥� lawsuit asks the court to abandon common knowledge, common sense.鈥�
McDonalds鈥� attorney Bradley Lerman on the obese teenagers suing the burger chain, claiming they didn鈥檛 know the health risks of overeating burgers (Reuters, 20 November)
鈥淚n a survey of 120 people 鈥� some of them nurses and doctors 鈥� not one agreed that they would donate their face in the event of their death.鈥�
Health editor Jo Revill on the prospects for face transplantation, after the Royal Free Hospital in London claimed that microsurgery now makes it a possibility (The Observer, London, 24 November)