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Soundbites

20 August 2008

“I want people to know that he was a humanitarian as well as the greatest slugger in baseball history.”

Linda Ruth Tosetti on the discovery that her grandfather, baseball legend Babe Ruth, died as a human guinea pig for an experimental cancer drug. William Maloney of New York University uncovered autopsy evidence that Ruth did not die of throat cancer caused by his tobacco habit but from a rare nasopharyngeal carcinoma (SportingNews.com, 16 August)

“I have climbed the Dhaulagiri (White Mountain) massif four times, and every time, I saw footprints of the yeti.”

Yeti hunter Yoshiteru Takahashi, who set…

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