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"When people worry about curing too many things, I'm always glad that bioethics bioethics, in philosophy, a branch of ethics concerned with issues surrounding health care and the biological sciences. These issues include the morality of abortion, euthanasia, in vitro fertilization, and organ transplants (see transplantation, medical).  wasn't around when people were thinking about infectious diseases or polio or yellow fever yellow fever, acute infectious disease endemic in tropical Africa and many areas of South America. Epidemics have extended into subtropical and temperate regions during warm seasons. ."

--Laurie Zoloth, director of the Center for Bioethics, Science, and Society at Northwestern University, quoted in the March 12 New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 Times

"Fuck you. Strong letter to follow."

--Doug Thompson, publisher of Capitol Hill Blue, responding on March 6 to an FBI national security letter demanding traffic data, payment records, and other information about his Web site

"You don't need to buy a $7 billion company to penetrate maritime security. The Mafia doesn't buy FedEx to smuggle smug·gle  
v. smug·gled, smug·gling, smug·gles

v.tr.
1. To import or export without paying lawful customs charges or duties.

2. To bring in or take out illicitly or by stealth.
."

-James Carafano of the Heritage Foundation, during a March 2 congressional hearing on the Dubai Ports deal

"We are not trying to pit neighbor against neighbor. We're trying to do this in the least punitive and least disruptive way."

--Calabasas, California, Mayor Barn/Groveman, defending a new ordinance that authorizes lawsuits, fines, and jail sentences for outdoor smoking, quoted in the January 21 Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times

Morning daily newspaper. Established in 1881, it was purchased and incorporated in 1884 by Harrison Gray Otis (1837–1917) under The Times-Mirror Co. (the hyphen was later dropped from the name).
 
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