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“You can’t get blood out of a turnip.”

Oklahoma rancher Bill Anderson, who depends on cheap chicken litter to fertilise hay to feed his cattle. He is annoyed that the state wants a federal judge to ban the practice to avoid contaminating water supplies. (ABC News Online, 3 March)

“I want to become another Hwang Woo-Suk for Korea.”

In 2005 bioscience professor Kim Tae-Kook told a local South Korean newspaper he wanted to emulate the now-disgraced stem cell researcher – he got his wish after the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology suspended him on Friday for fabricating…

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