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Texas Campaign for the Environment on Disney鈥檚 plans to introduce DVDs that self-destruct in 48 hours (The ENDS Report, London, October 2003)
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Tecumseh Fitch, a language evolution specialist, who is leading a project at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, to 鈥渢each鈥� seals to 鈥渢alk鈥� (The Guardian, London, 4 November)
鈥淭hat [spaceship] was an outdated one. If Japan wanted to do it, we could do it in one year.鈥�
Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara dismisses China鈥檚 manned spacecraft launch last month (Yomiuri Shimbun online, 4 November)
鈥淭here is no evidence that a tendency towards criminal behaviour can be inherited.鈥�
The Danish health ministry, responding to the revelation that a child murderer had donated sperm to the world鈥檚 largest sperm bank in Aarhus (The Sunday Telegraph, London, 2 November)
鈥淭he day after he went to clean himself, and I鈥檒l never forget the look on his face.鈥�
Entrepreneur Greg Miller describing his dog鈥檚 reaction to having been neutered. Miller has invented synthetic canine testicles called Neuticles (The Independent on Sunday, London, 2 November)
鈥淢aybe a billion people are infested by worms of different kinds around the world.鈥�
Bart Barrell, head of pathogen sequencing at the Sanger Centre on plans to start sequencing the genomes of pathogenic worms (The Guardian, London, 3 November)