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“This is laughable…they make weapons to kill people and it’s utterly ridiculous to suggest they are environmentally friendly.”

Symon Hill of Campaign Against Arms Trade, on news that BAE Systems is designing a “green” range of arms, including lead-free bullets and reduced-toxicity rockets (The Sunday Times, London, 17 September)

“Because of a severe psychological problem of the recipient and his wife, the transplanted penis regretfully had to be cut off.”

Weilie Hu of Guangzhou General Hospital, China, on having to remove the first-ever successfully transplanted penis from a man who had lost his in an accident (The Guardian, London,…

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