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'It's a matter of time before resistance to artemisinin is widespread. The concern is that it will spread before we can develop a new drug to replace it'

3 June 2009

“It’s a matter of time before resistance to artemisinin is widespread. The concern is that it will spread before we can develop a new drug to replace it.”

Biologist Glenn McConkey of the University of Leeds, UK, warns of malaria’s growing resistance to the most effective anti-malarial drug (The Guardian, London, 29 May)

“However profound our differences as Americans over difficult issues such as abortion, they cannot be resolved by heinous acts of violence.”

President Barack Obama on the murder of George Tiller, a prominent abortion doctor (BBC online, 1 June)

“It probably was the single most important event as far as media consumption on the…

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