鈥淲hat鈥檚 going to be banned next? Sex?鈥�
Laurent Lefevre, owner of Au Metro bar in the 14th district of Paris, on France鈥檚 decision to ban smoking in bars and restaurants from 2007 (AFP, 8 October)
鈥淚f someone had told me back then that 20 years hence DNA profiling would be the main forensic tool around the world, that it would be the way to prove paternity, I鈥檇 have said it was science fiction.鈥�
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Alec Jeffreys, inventor of DNA fingerprinting, speaking on the 20th anniversary of the first forensic use of the technique (BBC Online, 9 October).
鈥淵ou could kiss the jaguar goodbye.鈥�
Jon Schwedler of the Northern Jaguar Project in Tucson, Arizona, on the US plan to build a 1100-kilometre fence to control illegal immigration from Mexico. The fence would cut off natural migratory corridors for jaguars (The New York Times, 10 October).
鈥淯p to 150 million people in our region, south-east Asia and the Pacific will be dramatically affected and many of them will be knocking on our door.鈥�
Tim Costello of World Vision Australia on a report by the Australian national research organisation CSIRO warning that global warming could cause sea levels to rise by up to 16 cm by 2030, and up to 50 cm by 2070 (ABC Online, October 10).
鈥淚f something goes wrong we don鈥檛 expect to be in a position where we鈥檙e watching the death of a baby.鈥�
Belinda Phipps of the UK鈥檚 National Childbirth Trust prior to the first live screening of a birth on British television during a 2-hour reality TV show. The healthy baby, named Caleb, was delivered by Caesarean section (The Guardian, London, 8 October).