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Soundbites

14 March 2007

“There is a need to inject into the debate a degree of rationality – less foaming at the mouth and more thinking.”

Anthony King, chair of the independent RSA Commission on Illegal Drugs, Communities and Public Policy, which says there are severe flaws in British policy on recreational drugs (AFP, 8 March)

“Men can be jolly and fat.”

Kenneth Mukamal, lead author of a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine that has found obese men have a much lower risk of suicide than their slimmer counterparts (Los Angeles Times, 13 March)

“Intelligence would have said our sources are evidently poor. They had other sources –…

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