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Pamela Anderson in a letter to the municipal commissioner of Mumbai after the city ordered the killing of stray dogs to control their numbers (BBC News Online, 15 January)
鈥淩ight now, we very sadly see ideal conditions for outbreaks of disease.鈥�
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WHO director Margaret Chan warns that conditions in the densely populated Gaza Strip have become conducive to infection and disease transmission following Israel鈥檚 military offensive (AFP, 19 January)
鈥淲e could explain certain mistakes that Galileo made: why he described the planet Saturn as having 鈥榣ateral ears鈥� rather than having seen it encircled by rings, for example.鈥�
Paolo Galluzzi of the Institute and Museum of the History of Science in Florence, Italy, on seeking Galileo鈥檚 DNA to investigate the cause of his degenerating eyesight (AFP, 19 January)
鈥淣othing, nothing in the world is harder than picking yourself up after a cataclysm鈥� and moving forward, and we鈥檝e done it.鈥�
Outgoing NASA chief Michael Griffin speaking at a farewell address about the resumption of shuttle flights after the Columbia shuttle disaster in 2003, which killed seven astronauts (Los Angeles Times, 17 January)
鈥淲e have only four years left for Obama to set an example to the rest of the world.鈥�
NASA climate scientist James Hansen urges the incoming president to take urgent action to halt global warming (The Guardian, London, 18 January)