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Soundbites

24 November 2004

“The world deserves better toilets.”

Jack Sim, founder of the World Toilet Organization, speaking to hygiene experts at the fourth annual World Toilet Summit in Beijing, China (Reuters, 18 November)

“To use violence against research at a university…is a serious blow against the basic liberties of a plural society. If we surrender over animal research, what comes next?”

The University of Oxford’s Chancellor, Chris Patten, on the injunction won by the university that stops animal rights protesters from disrupting construction of a primate research centre (The Times, London, 18 November)

“We make tyres. We specialise in feet of sorts.”

Shinichi…

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