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狈础厂础鈥檚 James Hansen on the heads of oil and coal companies during his briefing on climate change for the US Congress (The New York Times Dot Earth blog, 23 June)
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Joji Morishita, Japanese delegate to the International Whaling Commission鈥檚 annual meeting in Chile, urges the international community to respect his country鈥檚 long history of eating whale meat (AFP, 23 June)
鈥淭he creationists are resilient, and they have regrouped.鈥�
Glenn Branch, deputy director of the National Council for Science Education, says many religious groups are now arguing that teachers should have the freedom to teach critiques of evolution in science classrooms if they so wish (The New York Times, 23 June)
鈥淲hat is more American than apple pie?鈥� People are at least as interested in group sex and orgies as they are in apple pie.鈥�
Florida defence lawyer Lawrence Walters uses the number of times certain terms are searched for on Google to show that interest in sexual subjects exceeds that of more mainstream topics 鈥� and that by extension, the sexual material distributed by his client is normal and not obscene (The New York Times, 24 June)
鈥淚t will ruin your summer.鈥�
Lyle Petersen, an expert on West Nile virus at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, ironically contracted the disease himself from a mosquito bite in Colorado (CNN, 23 June)