鈥淚 created the dance to bring happiness to the hearts of Africans and to chase away fear 鈥� the fear of eating chicken.鈥�
DJ Lewis, a DJ in Abidjan, the Ivory Coast, on the wacky bird flu dance that is all the rage in his city. Lewis thinks that getting city people to dance their fears away will encourage them to keep eating poultry from poor villages (, 2 June)
鈥淭o not use these cells at this point would be un-American.鈥�
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Valerie Estess, executive director of Project ALS, which raised $800,000 to open the private Project ALS/Jenifer Estess Stem Cell Laboratory in New York last month, which will circumvent federal laws governing research on human embryos (Los Angeles Times, 11 June)
鈥淚t is essential for more people to know this history of inhumanity so as to prevent similar tragedies.鈥�
Jan van Aken, cell biologist from the University of Hamburg, Germany, who interviewed survivors in China of germ warfare atrocities allegedly perpetrated by Japan between 1931 and 1945 (Xinhua News Agency, 12 June)
鈥淚 guess that鈥檚 sad for the male cane toads, but the nice thing is that nobody ends up dying in this strategy.鈥�
Peter Koopman of the University of Queensland in Australia on his efforts to genetically engineer cane toads so that tadpoles only develop into males, a strategy that would eventually wipe out these pests (ABC News online, 6 June)
鈥淚 basically grew up on a farm, my father was a farmer, so I grew up with nature as part of my everyday experience.鈥�
Achim Steiner, incoming head of the United Nations Environment Programme, the world鈥檚 most powerful environment agency (BBC online, 12 June)