Noted & quoted.

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'Someday we won't have any snow. We won't be Eskimos.'

--A hunter in Nain, an Inuit community in northeast Canada. Inuit reports of warmer winters and shrinking ice floes in the Arctic are attracting the attention of scientists studying global warming. (The Washington Post, March 22)

'All I asked for is what happened to my son, and it has been lie after lie after lie.'

--The father of Pat Tillman, ex-NFL player killed in combat in Afghanistan in 2004. Army explanations of his death have not satisfied his family, and now a criminal investigation is under way...