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Soundbites

26 April 2003

“If necessary we will promote and encourage new laws [on] WHO funding.”

Letter to the head of the WHO from the US Sugar Association, which is attempting to suppress a WHO report recommending sugar make up no more than 10 per cent of a healthy diet (The Guardian, London, 21 April)

“Those words include ‘sex worker’, ‘men who sleep with men’, ‘anal sex’ and ‘needle exchange’.”

Researchers who did not want to be named on what words not to mention if you want to get federal funding in the US (The New York Times, 18 April)

“The competition between the publicly funded human genome project and…

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