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“You could perceive that they’re saying this out of a real lack of understanding, or you could say that they’re doing it to ratchet up tension.”

Stephen Minger of King’s College London, on church leaders in the UK using their Easter sermons to condemn legislation allowing the use of hybrid human-animal embryos for research (The Guardian, London, 25 March)

I’ve seen people die and die and die. The only discharge you get from this place is to the mortuary.

Siyasanga Lukas, a 20-year-old TB patient at the Jose Pearson TB hospital in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, on how patients…

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