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Soundbites

2 August 2006

“You can’t go around the world yelling about Iranian and North Korean programmes – about which we know very little – when we’ve got all this going on.”

Milton Leitenberg, a weapons expert at the University of Maryland, College Park, on the secret National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center being built at Fort Detrick, Maryland, arguing that it could be seen as an infringement of bioweapons treaties (The Washington Post, 30 July)

“Beautiful parents have more daughters than ugly parents.”

Evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa of the London School of Economics on his team’s finding that attractive people are 36 per cent…

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