"Ivy League strivers in the U.S. may think they have it tough with their Advanced Placement tests and résumé-polishing community service. But they have nothing on the offspring of China, where a ticket to prosperity boils down to a couple of exams that have been known to induce breakdowns or even suicides: a high school entrance exam, the Zhongkao, and a college test, the Gaokao."
"If you live in the industrialized world, you probably can’t pass B. infantis on to your baby. Not even if you give birth vaginally, breast-feed exclusively and eat well."
"That the separations only began after a discretionary decision by the administration shows that Trump’s insistence that Democrats are obstructing a fix is nonsense."
"Many of its current members -- they include China, Saudi Arabia and Egypt -- have poor human rights records themselves."
"'Many kids are having nightmares, can't eat, can't sleep ... don't know where their parents are. The last image they have of their parents is shock and fear ... the memory never goes away.'"
"ProPublica, a nonprofit news organization, published the audio of children crying 'Mami' and 'Papi' while at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection detention facility on Monday."
"Children as young as 18 months who arrive with their parents have been forced into government custody while the adults serve brief sentences for the misdemeanor crime of illegal entry before going to immigrant detention centers. In some cases, they are deported without their children."
"Now, physicians are eager to analyse faecal samples from their patients in the hope of predicting who is likely to respond to anticancer drugs."
"The FDA has had trouble finding any food that does not carry traces of the pesticide."
"Five years ago, Whole Foods first announced its plans to adopt stringent mandatory labeling on products containing GMOs by 2018."