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“One of the things that makes me feel better when we look at these events is that if they all were the same type event or same root cause then you would say there’s a systemic problem here, but each event is unique in its own way.” — Jon Beatty, president and CEO of the Flight Safety Foundation, an airline industry-supported nonprofit in Alexandria, Virginia, on a cluster of recent disasters suffered by airlines.

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“This doesn’t actually sound like a botched execution. This actually sounds like a typical scenario if you used that drug combination.” — Karen Sibert, an anesthesiologist and associate professor at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, commenting on the nearly two-hour execution of a convicted murderer in Arizona.

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“Yesterday we witnessed an ambush against a soldier of the fatherland. We don’t want problems with anyone in the world, but if Venezuela’s dignity is violated, Venezuela will respond with sufficient strength. We won’t let our honor or that of any Venezuelan be sullied by campaigns orchestrated from the empire.” — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on the arrest of Hugo Carvajal, the former head of military intelligence under Hugo Chavez, in Aruba. Carvajal was sent as that country’s consul to the Caribbean island despite being sanctioned by the U.S. government on charges of drug trafficking.

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