鈥淥ur main concern is that the human genome is set to become a massive marketing scam.鈥�
Helen Wallace of pressure group Genewatch warns against unscrupulous companies selling cheap, inaccurate genetic tests for future disease risk (The Guardian, London, 22 January)
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骋辞辞驳濒别鈥檚 Eric Schmidt tells NASA it should invite more public participation in developing its space programmes (The Washington Post, 18 January)
鈥淐ommon actions are needed in every country to protect the common inheritance that has been given to us by our creator.鈥�
Prince Charles raised a few eyebrows at an alternative-energy conference in Abu Dhabi, not least because he had 鈥渂eamed in鈥� as a hologram (The Guardian, London, 22 January)
鈥淭he way they keep targeting gays as if gays alone are responsible for it 鈥� it鈥檚 like HIV/AIDS all over again.鈥�
Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, provoked anger from many people, including local resident Colin Thurlow, after claiming that gay men were 鈥渕any times more likely than others鈥� to acquire a new strain of MRSA (The New York Times, 20 January)
鈥淚f it sells, well, then we can come another day. This is very important to our continuing.鈥�
Joe Taylor, creationist founder of Mount Blanco Fossil Museum who believes that we co-existed with dinosaurs, on having to sell off a fossilised mastodon skull to rescue the museum from financial trouble (Associated Press, 17 January)