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<i>The Week In Quotables</i>

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A compendium of the week's finest quotations, from the nation's newspapers and beyond.

"A professor called it Compulsive Risk Assessment Psychosis, otherwise known as CRAP."

Rod Read of ElectroSensitivity-UK, regarding one academic's dismissive reaction to warnings of the health hazards of Wi-Fi.



"A host of common consumer items helps fuel conflict, ruins the environment, and relies on child labor."

Foreign Policy magazine, on the ethical dilemmas of holiday shopping.



"The spinach investigation was, no question, a high priority."

David W.K. Acheson, regarding food safety officials' investigation of a recent E.coli outbreak in spinach.



"...the type of extraordinary and blatant unfairness that sparked the Judicial Hellholes project and characterized the report over the past few years has decreased across-the-board."

Victor Schwartz, American Tort Reform Association's general counsel, describing the effect of the organization's annual list of "judicial hellholes" in America.



"A woman making burritos in Lake Arthur, N.M., saw the face of Jesus in the pattern of skillet burns on a tortilla."

The Los Angeles Times, describing one of the more notable incidents of people finding religious imagery in unlikely places.

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