“The idea is that you would see the body decomposing in a similar way to how it would decompose in the ground.”
Ben Gammon of the Science Museum, London, on proposals to exhibit a decomposing human body (The Sunday Times, London, 14 March)
“This bill says, ‘Don’t run off and file a lawsuit if you are fat.’ It says, ‘Look in the mirror because you’re the one to blame.'”
Representative F. James Sensenbrenner Jr, a Republican from Wisconsin, commenting on the so-called “cheeseburger bill” that aims to stop people suing restaurants for making them obese (The New York Times,…
