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Soundbites

8 November 2003

“Who put Goofy in charge of product design?”

Texas Campaign for the Environment on Disney’s plans to introduce DVDs that self-destruct in 48 hours (The ENDS Report, London, October 2003)

“They will just hang out with them, talking to them in a deep male voice.”

Tecumseh Fitch, a language evolution specialist, who is leading a project at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, to “teach” seals to “talk” (The Guardian, London, 4 November)

“That [spaceship] was an outdated one. If Japan wanted to do it, we could do it in one year.”

Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara dismisses China’s…

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