Daily News Digest

Quote of the day.
“It doesn’t matter who the dead are or who they belong to. They deserve a proper Islamic burial.” - Abdul Hakim, who retrieves insurgents’ bodies from American and Afghan authorities and returns them to their families and comrades.
(Washington Post)

Quote of the day.
"Anthony died as he lived — determined to bear witness to the transformation sweeping the Middle East and to testify to the suffering of people caught between government oppression and opposition forces." - Jill Abramson, executive editor of The New York Times, announcing the death of foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid while on a reporting assignment in Syria. Shadid’s dispatches for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and The Associated Press covered nearly two decades of Middle East conflict.
(New York Times)

Quote of the day.
"The Holocaust shows not only how low humanity can go, but also how high it can go. Someone in a camp who shares his last bread with a friend sheds new light on the word friendship." - Dorit Novak, director of the Yad Vashem Memorial and Museum’s International School for Holocaust Studies in Jerusalem.
(New York Times)

Quote of the day.
"One of the things I've always loved about archaeology is the way it can tie up with legends and myths. The fact that we might have the Queen of Sheba's mines is extraordinary." - Louise Schofield, an archaeologist and former British Museum curator, who headed an excavation in northern Ethiopia that discovered an ancient gold mine.
(Guardian)

Quote of the day.
"You don’t have to be a technophobe or think corporations are evil to not want G.M.O.'s in your food." - Ashley Russell, a college student at a rally after a Manhattan court hearing on the use of GMOs (genetically modified organisms).
(New York Times)

Quote of the day.
"Dickens's humanity and compassion made an extraordinary impact on Victorian England through his writings, which remain immensely popular. This bicentenary should help renew our commitment to improving the lot of the disadvantaged of our own day." - The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster Abbey, on today’s 200^th anniversary of Charles Dickens’ birth.
(BBC)

Quote of the day.
"The situation is dramatic, the snow is up to five metres [16 feet] high in some areas, you can only see rooftops." - Dr. Milorad Dramacanin, who took part in helicopter evacuations in central Serbia, speaking of conditions in eastern Europe that have caused more than 120 cold-related deaths and at least 11,000 people trapped by heavy snow in mountain villages in Serbia.
(Guardian)