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'The real solution is to deliver services ... rather than turn Haiti into a military state.'

TED CONSTAN, chief program officer for the relief organization Partners in Health, on the withdrawal of U.S. troops stationed in Haiti since the nation's Jan. 12 earthquake

'A ban on eating them would show China has reached a new level of civilization.'

CHANG JIWEN, a professor at the Chinese Academy of the Social Sciences, on the Chinese government's consideration of legislation that would make eating cats and dogs illegal

'We used to hustle on over the border for health care ... And I...

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