“The bureaucratic equivalent of saying that the dog ate your homework.”
Edward Markey of the US House Select Committee on Global Warming criticises the Bush administration for rejecting a proposal from the Environmental Protection Agency to use the Clean Air Act to limit CO2 emissions. To make matters worse, the next day the EPA backtracked, saying the law was “ill-suited” to regulate climate change (CNN, 12 July)
“When I was growing up, they would ask things like: how do you fit in a test tube?”
The world’s first “test-tube baby”, Louise Brown, celebrated her 30th birthday last week…
