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A member of the UK鈥檚 science and technology committee of MPs hints at the contents of a forthcoming report on human reproductive technologies (The Daily Telegraph, London, 21 March)
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Claire Williamson of the British Nutrition Foundation questions whether the rose-flavoured Japanese 鈥淏ust-Up gum鈥�, which contains phytoestrogens, can live up to its breast-enhancing claims (BBC News Online, 18 March)
鈥淲e鈥檙e going to take the 鈥楢鈥� out of it, and it鈥檚 just going to be the National Space Administration.鈥�
US congressman Dennis J. Kucinich of Ohio worries that cuts in NASA funding for aviation research will deprive NASA of its edge in aeronautics (The New York Times, 17 March)
鈥淚f we don鈥檛 do something, the wax palm and the yellow-eared parrot will disappear from the planet.鈥�
Harvesting palm fronds for Palm Sunday puts pressure on rainforest ecosystems, says Luz Mery Cortes from Conservation International, which is encouraging churches in the US to source greenery from sustainable plantations (Associated Press, 19 March)
鈥淚f you can blow someone鈥檚 head off, I don鈥檛 see why you can鈥檛 have drugs, as long as it fits the context.鈥�
Doug Walker of Dutch company Guerrilla Games defends the increasing number of computer games featuring drug use (The New York Times, 17 March)