“There is very little evidence that allowing parents to choose the sex of their child would have any imbalancing effect on society.”
A member of the UK’s science and technology committee of MPs hints at the contents of a forthcoming report on human reproductive technologies (The Daily Telegraph, London, 21 March)
“Such products may be simply another food gimmick.”
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Claire Williamson of the British Nutrition Foundation questions whether the rose-flavoured Japanese “Bust-Up gum”, which contains phytoestrogens, can live up to its breast-enhancing claims (BBC News Online, 18 March)
“We’re going to take the ‘A’ out of it, and it’s just going to be the National Space Administration.”
US congressman Dennis J. Kucinich of Ohio worries that cuts in NASA funding for aviation research will deprive NASA of its edge in aeronautics (The New York Times, 17 March)
“If we don’t do something, the wax palm and the yellow-eared parrot will disappear from the planet.”
Harvesting palm fronds for Palm Sunday puts pressure on rainforest ecosystems, says Luz Mery Cortes from Conservation International, which is encouraging churches in the US to source greenery from sustainable plantations (Associated Press, 19 March)
“If you can blow someone’s head off, I don’t see why you can’t have drugs, as long as it fits the context.”
Doug Walker of Dutch company Guerrilla Games defends the increasing number of computer games featuring drug use (The New York Times, 17 March)
