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Huang Weicai, whose brother Huang Chuncai is recovering after Chinese surgeons removed the 57-centimetre-long tumour from his head on 24 July (Reuters, 24 July)
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Skip Snow, a biologist in the Everglades National Park, Florida, on the problems posed by releasing exotic pets into the wild. A growing population of Burmese pythons is the latest threat to native Everglade species (The New York Times, 24 July)
鈥淔or every one person that you put in therapy, six get infected. So we鈥檙e losing that game, the numbers game.鈥�
Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who told an international AIDS conference in Sydney, Australia, that treatment couldn鈥檛 match the rate of new infections (The Independent, London, 24 July)
The kids down the hall are using it, and you鈥檙e thinking: 鈥榯hat鈥檚 supposed to be us鈥�. We鈥檙e not there because one greedy kid cut us out.
Tyler Winklevoss, one of three former fellow students of Mark Zuckerberg 鈥� now CEO of social networking site Facebook 鈥� claiming that Zuckerberg stole their business idea. A Boston court will this week decide whether to proceed with the lawsuit (Toronto Star, 24 July)
鈥淭hese little bitty dogs, they just don鈥檛 really get credit.鈥�
Denise Long, whose one-year old grandson Booker West was saved from a rattlesnake by their pet chihuahua Zoey. The snake attacked Booker as he played in his grandparents鈥� backyard in Masonville, Colorado (Sky News, 24 July)