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Bioethicist John Harris of Manchester University on the difference between late abortion of abnormal babies, which is legal in the UK, and the killing of newborns (The Sunday Telegraph, London, 25 January)
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Film producer Morton Spurlock after eating three meals a day at McDonalds for a month. A TV documentary called Super Size Me charts his experience (The New York Post, 22 January)
鈥淭his plan will help produce energy in an environmentally responsible manner.鈥�
US Interior Secretary Gale Norton on signing a plan opening up a 2.5-million-hectare swath of northern Alaska to oil and gas development (Associated Press, 22 January)
鈥淭he lack of the tumour really suits her.鈥�
Surgeon Ion Lascar, part of a team that removed an 80-kilogram tumour from a Romanian woman who had been unable to afford treatment (CNN.com, 22 January)
鈥淗istory has shown that when people have the opportunity to tamper with an election they do.鈥�
Computer scientist Avi Rubin on e-voting (The Washington Post, 22 January)