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Soundbites

24 April 2004

“The Kyoto protocol is a death treaty, no matter how strange that seems, because its main purpose is to stifle economic growth and economic activity in countries.”

Andrei Illarionov, an economic adviser to the Russian president, who also compared the Kyoto protocol to the Nazi Holocaust (The Independent, London, 15 April)

“We’re not using these robots to hand out flowers.”

Colin Angle, CEO of iRobot, on whether the company’s next generation of military robots could be armed (Wired News, 13 April)

“Wish you were here.”

The message that NASA’s rover Spirit carried to Mars, written in code. The Planetary Society,…

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