“If we don’t play God, who will?”
James Watson on genetic engineering (DNA: The Story of Life, Channel 4 television, London, 8 March)
“Destroying [terrorist] recruiting organizations may be successful in the near term but even more resistant organizations could emerge.”
Psychologist Scott Atran on how to stop suicide bombers (Science, 7 March)
“It could tie up the AIDS funding bill for weeks and weeks and weeks.”
Holly Burkhalter of Physicians for Human Rights on how abortion opponents are holding up the US’s 拢15 billion fund for global AIDS programmes (The New York Times, 6 March)
“Our country deserves a minister who is serious about fighting…
