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Juan Sabines, state governor of Chiapas, Mexico, on a landslide on Monday that swept water and debris from a local river over the village of San Juan Grijalva, home to around 600 people (Associated Press, 5 November)
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Mary Claire O鈥橞rien of Wake Forest University in North Carolina on the finding that young people who mix energy drinks with alcohol are twice as likely to be harmed as those drinking only alcohol (BBC News, 5 November)
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Sherrell Aston, of New York鈥檚 Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, commenting on warnings by cosmetic surgeons that thousands of people face permanent damage from new facial 鈥渇iller鈥� injections (The Independent, London, 4 November)
鈥淭hese lawbreakers have got some balls.鈥�
A spokesman for China鈥檚 State Food and Drug Administration on the criminals who set up a fake version of the drug watchdog鈥檚 website to promote their own 鈥渕iracle鈥� drugs (Reuters, 1 November)
鈥淚 think it鈥檚 another adaptation to predation pressure from big cats. Through evolution, they cannot afford to be as stinky as the other ones.鈥�
Dutch biologist Marc van Roosmalen speculates on the curious odourlessness of the giant peccary, a new species of wild pig he spotted in a remote region of the Brazilian Amazon (The Daily Telegraph, London, 5 November)