"A greater role for China is necessary for China, for the effectiveness of the international financial institutions themselves, and for the world economy."

Visiting U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, in a speech titled "The United States and China, Cooperating for Recovery and Growth" at Peking University on June 1

"The West will have to start to get to grips with the fact that we are no longer dominant and cannot expect to have things our own way."

Douglas McWilliams, Chief Executive Officer of the London-based Center for Economics and Business Research Ltd., when the institution released its research results showing that theeconomic output of the United States, Canada and Europe will account for less than 50 percent of the world total in 2009

"It is clear to me that as a continent Africa has needs that managing climate change and the environment have to speak to."

Buyelwa Sonjica, South African Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs. African environment ministers agreed to mainstream climate change adaptation measures into national and regional development plans, policies and strategies at a special session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment in Kenya on May 29

"Cancer comes from our own cells. And so it's more like guerrilla warfare--the immune system has trouble distinguishing the normal cells from the cancer cells."

Dr. Patrick Hwu, melanoma chief at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. U.S. doctors revealed at a cancer conference on May 31 that they have overcome 30 years of false starts and found success with using the human immune system in treating cancer