鈥淚f necessary we will promote and encourage new laws [on] WHO funding.鈥�
Letter to the head of the WHO from the US Sugar Association, which is attempting to suppress a WHO report recommending sugar make up no more than 10 per cent of a healthy diet (The Guardian, London, 21 April)
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Researchers who did not want to be named on what words not to mention if you want to get federal funding in the US (The New York Times, 18 April)
鈥淭he competition between the publicly funded human genome project and Celera was horrendous. The rush meant that we both produced a poor product鈥� People have wasted a lot of time because they had to deal with very poor data.鈥�
Former Sanger Centre director John Sulston (The Biochemist, April edition)
鈥淲e have gone from a likely scenario to a 鈥榩robably鈥� scenario. It鈥檚 the foam came off the tank, it whacked the front edge of the wing between panels 7 and 9, it cracked and broke and something floated away.鈥�
Unnamed NASA source on the likely conclusion of the Columbia disaster investigation (Houston Chronicle, 22 April)
鈥淵ou can throw an elephant or a car into the water. What鈥檚 the big deal about a dolphin?鈥�
Former trainer at a Russian naval institute on plans to form an 鈥渁irborne dolphin division鈥� (Dolphin Soldiers, on Britain鈥檚 History Channel, 22 April)