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“If you kill a tiger, you can buy a motorbike.”

Anonymous hunter in Laos, on the money to be made selling tiger pelts to the Chinese market (The Independent, London, 13 June)

“The men are usually very surprised, but the babies seem content.”

Former president of the UK’s Royal College of Midwives Caroline Flint, on babies that suck on their father’s nipples when being cuddled (The Times, London, 13 June)

“In a recent case, we found the [missing] data on a former employee’s iPod.”

Paul Carratu, president of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, based in Austin, Texas, on…

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