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Viewfinder: Opinions from around the world

20 May 2009

“We as consumers have been completely unaware of the complex chain of events tying widespread sexual violence in [the Democratic Republic of the] Congo to the minerals that help power our cellphones, laptops, MP3 players, video games and digital cameras.”

on how demand for tin, tungsten and tantalum is fuelling rape

“If Darwin had been dependent on a grant from a British research council, he would never have set sail.”

, London, arguing that university research is becoming too commercially oriented

“Bad information in the medical literature leads doctors to…

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