33,203 source-backed world facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 326 of 333.
“It was given to the museum by the Voluntary Euthanasia Research Foundation of Australia, and was brought to the new Wellcome Wing by its developer, Dr Philip Nitschke.”
“The arrival of this object was marked by a Euthanasia Forum, chaired by Sir Stephen Tumin, featuring a panel of speakers of various shades of opinion, including Dr Nitschke.”
“many analysts believe that there is more than a fifty-fifty chance of a nuclear exchange.”
“There are new threats to the world,” said Sandy Berger, the US National Security Advisor, last month. “One of these is the growing capability of North Korea and Iran, which may not be as susceptible to deterrence as the Soviet Union was.”
“According to Richard Butler, the former head of the Unscom agency charged with verifying the destruction of Saddam’s mass-destructive capabilities, the west has lacked the guts to confront the Iraqi dictator and will see him grow in power …”
“Butler says flatly that “despite the massive amount of time and resources that were devoted to the job, it is not known accurately what capability for making and using weapons of mass destruction Saddam retains.”
“Three permanent members (China, France and Russia) of the Security Council of the UN – the lawmaker and enforcer in this field – have decided to end all efforts to disarm Saddam and to oblige him to conform with the law.”
“As recently as 1998, a group of conspirators at a major Russian nuclear weapons facility attempted to steal enough material for a nuclear bomb at a single stroke.”
“At the same time, virtually none of the measures that would be required to verifiably reduce stockpiles of nuclear weapons and materials to low, agreed levels are in place.”
“I asked 35 ordinary, relatively normal people: do you buy a newspaper to read any one particular writer? Of the 35 people asked, 29 said they did. Of these, a third said that they would stop buying the paper if the writer in question were …”
“although, as she told Observer readers last weekend, she has now abandoned it.”
“Slater’s site, however, will go up 'some time this year or early next'.”
“Gledhill gets 200 hits a day (not bad, considering that the site isn’t advertised)”
“She started it three years ago”
“(not bad, considering that the site isn’t advertised)”
“but emphasises that she doesn’t make money from it.”
“when he started in journalism almost 50 years ago, on the Manchester Guardian”
“Ruth Gledhill, the religious affairs correspondent of the Times”
“Tara Palmer-Tomkinson (although not by her, and this is for sale for 'not less than £7,000')”
“a thesis by the 16th‑century Venetian writer Lucrezia Marinella”
“Of the 35 people asked, 29 said they did.”
“Of these, a third said that they would stop buying the paper if the writer in question were to be accessible directly on the web.”
“she has now abandoned it.”
“Nigel Slater’s had, ditto Nigella Lawson, John Diamond (his name was apparently registered by one of his readers and given to him, he says, “as a sort of present”)…”
“Tara Palmer-Tomkinson (although not by her, and this is for sale for “not less than £7,000”)”
“Lanky coolies load grubby cases on top of the so-called Peace Bus that travels the 12-hour journey along the GT, or Grand Trunk Road.”
“We soon clock up the 30 or so kilometres to the Wagah border post – the only official land crossing-point between Pakistan and India.”
“It was here, not long after both countries exploded nuclear devices, that the Indian prime minister, A B Vajpayee, arrived by another bus to meet his now deposed Paki-stani counterpart, Nawaz Sharif. They signed the Lahore Declaration in e…”
“Things are slow on a border that is officially open from 9.30am until 3.30pm each day.”
“We cross the short stretch of paved no-man’s land, dividing 140 million Pakistanis from one billion Indians, who, until partition more than 50 years ago, shared centuries of history.”
“It extends for hundreds of kilometres across the Punjab.”
“We were driving through the Indian Punjab when a car blocked the road. A mob of 40 to 50 people tried t”
“But the declaration soon became a dead letter, buried in the Kargil war fought hand-to-hand last year on the snowy peaks that form the jagged Line of Control which separates Indian- from Pakistani-administered Kashmir.”
“four vivacious women gathered around the kitchen table”
“four one-time bouncy, amusing females”
“Last summer”
“this time last year”
“nears his 18th birthday”
“two years ago”
“that ordinary terraced house you turned your nose up at a few years ago will now cost you, unbelievably, £350,000 or more.”
“to 2,000 years of history”
“four square on the Northern Line”
“For much of its 25 years, the Lebanon assignment was an unpopular one”
“Israeli Arabs now number more than a million, against 150,000 in 1948.”
“Armies with more than 15 per cent women seriously compromise their combat effectiveness, he says.”
“In 1984, 241 US marines were blown up in their base in Beirut”
“massacred about 7,000 unarmed Muslims in July 1995”
“A party of 15 young people and their leaders will travel from the island of Westray in the Orkneys to a youth gathering on the island of Iona in the Inner Hebrides, and the round-trip will take them an astonishing four days and nights, eig…”
“Glasgow to Newlyn by plane is possible, but it involves stopovers and a cool £500-plus for the privilege.”
“If you want to fly in the opposite direction, to Skye, you can’t. There is no airfield on Skye that is open to commercial or even subsidised air travel.”
“If there were a regular service that converted the five-hour car journey from Glasgow into a 40-minute flight, there is no doubt that it would benefit the island’s economy.”
“Croissants and coffee and a 40-minute ride across one of the most beautiful sea lochs in the world could surely be marketed as preferable to gnashing one’s teeth in the interminable queues at either of the Queensferrys.”
“A third of all children were living in poverty when Labour took office”
“the 5,000th person in Scotland helped into work by the New Deal for Lone Parents”
“she had placed 90 people like this young woman in work, with only three failures”
“The New Deal for young people has seen 25,000 people into work, on top of the 5,000 lone parents who’ve been helped to find jobs”
“more than a million children lifted out of poverty”
“The French civil service manages to administer the regulation of its private sector with a tenth of the paperwork.”
“A third of all children were living in poverty when Labour took office.”
“25,000 people into work”
“There are some 2.7 million Turks now living and working in Germany”
“Joan Bakewell reports for Correspondent on BBC2 on 3 June”
“almost half of all sub-Saharan Africans live on the equivalent of $1 a day.”
“Africans who are 18 years old and younger, who constitute half the population”
“Nigeria and its 110 million people”
“1884-85 Berlin Conference”
“Africans who are 18 years old and younger, who constitute half the population.”
“Greenwich Council regards the Millennium “Experience” as a civic amenity to be enjoyed free, like the baths, by every teenager in the borough who can afford a pound for a “green card”.”
“Last year, she “went on a Mencap holiday to a place near the sea.””
“He and his wife, Gloria, live with five of their six children in conspicuous poverty.”
“Marion Hacking – an attractive 33-year-old mother of five”
“Martin’s wife – who worked in a burger bar in Woolwich Market – “went off with another chap” two years ago, when the youngest of their seven children was three years old.”
“Since May 1997, 50,000 more Scots have found jobs, 25,000 of them in the past year.”
“Since it started in 1998, 44,000 Scots have joined the New Deal, and already 21,000 have found jobs.”
“Youth unemployment has fallen by two-thirds”
“help employers fill the 100,000 Scottish vacancies currently on offer.”
“Since 1997, 100,000 Scots families have been taken out of poverty”
“Only 4 per cent of our poorest households have access to the internet”
“New Labour takes as its poverty line half of the average household income.”
“Even so, at the present rate of progress, child poverty will not be abolished until 2019.”
“the top 10 per cent own 80 per cent of our wealth, and 30 per cent of income, even after tax”
“At the last count, there were 180 of them, and all over the world.”
“Until a few decades ago, all 3,500 Carnegie libraries in the US had their busts of the Bard.”
“Burns has been translated into at least 50 languages.”
“The last Russian translation sold more than a million copies.”
“he seems to have had no compunction in swearing a long and solemn oath to King George III when he signed up as an Excise officer in 1789.”
“It was Burns, after all, who penned the words to 'Scots Wha Hae', which remains the official anthem of the Scottish Nationalist Party”
“The man who wrote 'A fig for those by law protected! / Liberty’s a glorious feast' and 'A man’s a man for a’ that'”
“Burns’s various right-wing ditties are hardly ever recalled, but there are plenty of them. When Admiral Rodney trounced the French in 1792, an exultant Burns wrote: 'The next in succession I’ll give you: The King! / And who would betray hi…”
“When Admiral Rodney trounced the French in 1792”
“Both revolutions seek to secure for India the status of a first-world power, befitting its population (around one billion) and its strategic position.”
“A few feeble voices went up ‘Twenty! Fifty! A thousand!’”
“first, the Pakistani attack on Kashmir (which the Indians regard as their territory) that took place just as the prime minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, made a personal trip to Lahore to try to mend relations between the two countries”
“The author of this report celebrates her 90th birthday on 5 May.”
“British ministers have long admired the results of Asian education systems, whose children consistently top international league tables for maths, language and science tests.”
“Yet Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea are all now looking for ways to improve creativity and thinking skills.”
“I’m 37”
“I actually feel about 137”
“in London in the year 2020”
“Every event is 99 per cent anticipation.”
