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“I created the dance to bring happiness to the hearts of Africans and to chase away fear – the fear of eating chicken.”

DJ Lewis, a DJ in Abidjan, the Ivory Coast, on the wacky bird flu dance that is all the rage in his city. Lewis thinks that getting city people to dance their fears away will encourage them to keep eating poultry from poor villages (NationalGeographic.com, 2 June)

“To not use these cells at this point would be un-American.”

Valerie Estess, executive director of Project ALS, which raised $800,000 to open the private Project ALS/Jenifer Estess Stem Cell…

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