Experts say turning point had been reached in England’s heroin epidemic, with fall particularly sharp among under 30s Young people in England are turning their backs on the most dangerous drugs for the first time in 30 years, according to the head of the national treatment agency. New figures show that the total number of drug users entering treatment for heroin or crack cocaine has fallen by 10,000 over the past two years. The official data shows that the fall in heroin use is particularly sharp among under 30s with the number of 18-24 year olds in treatment more than halving and the 25-29 age group almost matching this fall. Drug treatment experts say that they are “cautiously optimistic” that the heroin epidemic which has gripped Britain since the 1980s may have finally passed its high water mark. Paul Hayes, NTA chief executive, said the new figures which also show an 18% rise in the number of people officially defined as “recovering from addiction” were an indication that the trend was moving in the right direction: “We’re a goal up, but it’s not half time yet. I think what it shows is that we’ve probably passed the high water mark of the impact of the epidemic of the late 80s and 90s.” Hayes said that the once popular images “heroin chic” and Trainspotting culture were no longer fashionable and young people instead see the damage heroin and crack use has done to their older siblings and, sadly, in some cases even their parents. “If you see people in your community who actually can’t cope because of heroin and crack use. If you increasingly see heroin and crack dependency concentrated among the people in society who do life least well, as that becomes apparent, it’s difficult to see it being fashionable or chic.” But he warned that the onset of the heroin epidemic that scarred the late 1980s and 1990s on the back of a sharp rise in youth employment could yet return: “We need to be vigilant that if we see a rise in youth unemployment that it doesn’t lead to a return to 1980s level of heroin use. It is not inevitable but we have to watch the situation very closely.” The latest NTA drug data for 2010/11 shows that 52,933 drug users entered treatment for heroin or crack cocaine in the past year, down from 58,016 in 2009/10 and 62,963 in 2008/09. The national drug treatment monitoring system figures show that 27,969 adults left treatment “free from dependency” last year – an 18% increase over the previous year. The figures echo estimates from Glasgow University’s drug misuse research centre which put the number of heroin and crack users in England in 2009/10 at 306,000 down from 332,000 in 2008/09. The annual budget for drug treatment has risen to £600m a year from £200m a decade ago. Harry Shapiro of the DrugScope, the independent drugs information charity, agreed that a real turning point had been reached in England’s heroin epidemic: “Things seem to moving in the right direction. The figures are showing an absolute decline in the heroin using population in Britain for the first time since the late 1960s.” He said that was confirmed by the ageing nature of the heroin using population and the fact that young people’s treatment services were now dealing with many more people with alcohol and cannabis problems than heroin. Shapiro said significant successes by the Turkish authorities in disrupting the traditional flow of heroin into Europe from Afghanistan via Iran had also played a role. Drugs Health Alan Travis guardian.co.uk
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Home secretary should challenge researchers after claiming man avoided deportation because he owned pet cat, justice secretary says Kenneth Clarke has raised the stakes in his confrontation with the home secretary, Theresa May, accusing her of using a “laughable, child-like” example to criticise the Human Rights Act. In an intervention that will infuriate Downing Street, the justice secretary said May should challenge her researchers after claiming that a man had been able to avoid deportation because he owned a pet cat. Speaking to the Nottingham Post, he said: “I sat and listened to Theresa’s speech, and I’ll have to be very polite to Theresa when I meet her – but in my opinion she should really address her researchers and advisers very severely for assuring her that a complete nonsense example in her speech was true. “I’m not going to stand there and say in my private opinion this is a terrible thing and we ought to get rid of the Human Rights Act. “It’s not only the judges that all get furious when the home secretary makes a parody of a court judgement – our commission who are helping us form our view on this are not going to be entertained by laughable, child-like examples being given. “We have a policy and, in my old-fashioned way, when you serve in a government you express a collective policy of the government – you don’t go round telling everyone your personal opinion is different.” Downing Street will be furious with Clarke after No 10 said it was delighted with the announcement in May’s conference speech that illegal immigrants were abusing the Human Rights Act to fight deportation from Britain. The home secretary illustrated her case by citing the example of a Bolivian national who resisted deportation on the grounds he owned a cat, called Maya. May, who wants to abolish the Human Rights Act, told the Manchester conference about “the illegal immigrant who cannot be deported because – I am not making this up – he had a pet cat”. Speaking an hour later at a fringe meeting hosted by the Daily Telegraph, Clarke ridiculed May’s remarks. Clarke, a strong defender of the European convention on human rights, which provided the basis for the Human Rights Act, said: “I’ve never had a conversation on the subject with Theresa, so I’d have to find out about these strange cases she is throwing out. “They are British cases and British judges she is complaining about. I cannot believe anybody has ever had deportation refused on the basis of owning a cat. I’ll have a small bet with her that nobody has ever been refused deportation on the grounds of the ownership of a cat.” Kenneth Clarke Theresa May Conservative conference 2011 Conservative conference Human Rights Act Human rights Nicholas Watt guardian.co.uk
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Most economists had expected the monetary policy committee (MPC) to delay a decision on more QE until next month The Bank of England has taken action to kickstart Britain’s flatlined economy by pumping another £75bn into the banking system, more than economists had expected. Faced with growing warnings of a double-dip recession and a eurozone crisis, the Bank is setting aside fears about high inflation to increase its programme of quantitative easing (QE). Most economists had expected the monetary policy committee (MPC) to delay a decision on more QE until next month when it will have its newest forecasts for growth and inflation. But market players had said the decision would be very finely balanced given the latest downbeat economic data , including news this week that the economy virtually ground to a halt in the second quarter. MPC members themselves had also indicated they could act sooner rather than later if there were fresh signs of growth tailing off. The Bank also left interest rates on hold at their record low of 0.5%. The latest move raises QE programme to £275bn. QE effectively puts money into the markets through asset purchases, mainly of UK government bonds, made by the Bank of England. Between March 2009 and January 2010 it bought £200bn of assets, equivalent to about 14% of GDP to help breathe life into the UK economy following the credit crunch. More details soon Quantitative easing Economics Interest rates Bank of England Katie Allen guardian.co.uk
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Judge Claudio Pratillo Hellmann tells newspaper the acquittal was based on ‘truth created in the proceedings’ The judge who presided at the trial of Amanda Knox and her former Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, has reportedly said they may be guilty after all. Speaking just two days after he and his fellow judges handed down a full acquittal on appeal, Judge Claudio Pratillo Hellmann, said the court’s verdict “is the result of the truth that was created in the proceedings. But the real truth may be different. They may be responsible, but the evidence is not there.” The 69 year-old judge was speaking to the Corriere della Sera newspaper in the latest of several interviews he has given to media organisations since reading out the verdict on Monday night. On Wednesday, he had already begun to muddy the waters, telling another interviewer: “This will remain an unsolved truth. No one can say how things went.” Hellmann’s remarks were all the more unexpected because he and the other judges could have reached a less clear-cut acquittal. Italian courts have ruling options in which the appellants are acquitted for lack of evidence – a verdict similar to “not proven” in Scottish law. Monday night’s decision was the climax of a dramatic and at times searingly acrimonious appeal that attracted global attention. It was reached by Judge Hellmann and a second professional judge sitting alongside six lay judges drawn by ballot from among the public. The acquittal of Knox and Sollecito meant that the only person left in jail for the 2007 murder of the British student Meredith Kercher is Rudy Guede, an Ivory Coast-born drugs peddler. He admitted he was in the house on the night she died, but denied he killed her. Guede is serving a 16-year sentence after opting for a fast-track trial. Hellmann said: “I cannot affirm that Rudy Guede is the only one who knows what happened that night.” But he added: “He certainly knows and hasn’t said. Perhaps the two [other] accused, Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito, also know.” Commenting on protests outside the court in Perugia after the verdict was announced, the judge observed that many Italians had already decided on Knox’s guilt. “I think it stems from [her] American nationality,” he said. Hellmann added that he was sorry to see the prosecutors had taken the outcome as a defeat. “If I had been in their place, with the elements they had, I would have done the same,” he said. The prosecutor who led the investigation, Giuliano Mignini, has indicated that he wants to contest the court’s decision in Italy’s highest appeals tribunal. But the court, in Rome, normally deals only with points of law and procedure. Amanda Knox Raffaele Sollecito Italy Europe United States John Hooper guardian.co.uk
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More repeats on BBC2, fewer entertainment shows and smaller BBC3 and BBC4 as corporation seeks to save £67m The BBC will axe nearly 2,000 jobs as it looks to save £670m a year in long-awaited cost-cutting plans announced on Thursday morning. The changes will see more repeats on BBC2, fewer entertainment shows, less money spent on sports rights and a shrunken BBC3 and BBC4. BBC3 will be moved to the BBC’s new northern base in Salford, which will become home to “at least” another 1,000 jobs, taking its total workforce to 3,300, while the BBC prepares to vacate its west London headquarters. There will also be wide-ranging cuts to the BBC’s radio output, with the exception of Radio 4. The BBC said today’s proposals – the result of its nine-month Delivering Quality First review – would lead to a “smaller and radically reshaped BBC”. It follows last year’s licence fee settlement which frozen the BBC’s funding – and the £145.50 fee – until 2017 and saw the corporation take on extra responsibilities including the BBC World Service. As anticipated, BBC director general Mark Thompson has avoided the wholesale axing of one of its digital channels or services. But Thompson warned the changes would mean “stretching efficiencies and significant job losses. It’s my judgment that this is the last time the BBC will be able to make this level of savings without a substantial loss of services or quality or both”. Lord Patten, the chairman of the BBC Trust, said: “The BBC is far from perfect but it is a great institution and, at its best, a great broadcaster. We have a tough and challenging new licence fee settlement, but it should still be possible to run an outstanding broadcaster on £3.5bn a year.” The proposals outlined by the BBC today will save £670m a year by 2016/17 which, along with extra efficiency savings of £30m a year, will result in total savings of 20% of the BBC’s budget. About 4% of the savings will be reinvested into programming. BBC2′s existing daytime schedule will be scrapped, replaced by international news and current affairs at lunchtime and repeats in the afternoon. Both BBC3 and BBC4 will be “refocussed” to play a “supporting role” to BBC1 and BBC2 respectively. There will also be fewer entertainment programmes and overseas acquisitions. It is also proposing that children’s programmes such as Blue Peter will be dropped from BBC1, airing exclusively on its two dedicated digital channels, CBBC and CBeebies, sometime after the whole country has moved switched over to digital television in 2012. On radio, there will be greater sharing of news bulletins across networks with Radio 5 Live, which has recently been expanding its entertainment programmes, refocussed on a “core output of news and sport”. Radio 3′s lunchtime original drama, live music and concerts will be cut, and the BBC’s orchestras and singers will be “reviewed”. The Proms will not be affected. Local radio will also be hit, with a focus on peaktime programmes and more syndicated programmes across neighbouring stations. The BBC will continue with plans to reduce senior management numbers and cut BBC Online’s budget by 25%. In total, £400m of the savings by 2016/17 will come from productivity savings, with £205m from “scope” – that is programmes and services. The BBC will also quit its various west London properties, including TV Centre. Thompson said: “This is a plan which puts quality and creativity first. It’s a plan for a smaller BBC, but a BBC which uses its resources more effectively and collaboratively to deliver a full range of services to the public. The plan meets the savings target we agreed in last year’s licence-fee settlement, but also identifies nearly £150m per year to invest in high quality output and in the platforms and services of the future.” The BBC Trust has now launched a public consultation on the proposals. Lord Patten said: “The Trust’s view has been clear from the start of this process – the BBC must look to run itself as efficiently as possible before we consider cutting services. Over half of the savings announced today will come from changes to operations, but there will need to be some changes to services and we now need to test BBC management’s proposals for this. We agree with the direction that the director general has taken, but we want to hear what the public think, as it is ultimately their BBC.” The sports’ rights budgets will be cut by 15%, with a reduction in the amount of money it spends on overseas drama and films. The entertainment budget will also be cut, focused on “programmes which have lower impact that the big events on BBC1, as well as some entertainment on BBC2″. All new first-run daytime programming will be run on BBC1, with BBC2′s daytime schedule given over to repeats of “outstanding” shows which have already run in peak. Overnight programming on TV and radio will be reduced, while regional current affairs shows on television will be shared across larger region. The BBC HD channel will be closed, replaced with a high definition broadcast of BBC2. The BBC News budget will be cut by £24m, with “limited reductions” in current affairs across TV and Radio 4. Non-news programmes on the BBC News channel will be scaled down with more repeats in off-peak. BBC1′s Sunday lunchtime strand, the Politics Show, will be axed, replaced by a weekend version of Daily Politics. Regional current affairs show Inside Out will survive but be shared across wider regions. But the BBC said it would “sustain its commitment to core journalistic output” with an increased investigations budget for Panorama and more international current affairs on BBC TV. Running through all today’s proposals were a focus on peaktime output, sharing and repeating more content on TV and radio. The number of repeats on BBC1 and Radio 4 will increase by one percentage point, while BBC2′s entire daytime schedule outside of lunchtime will consist of repeats. •
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New registrations in September, which traditionally account for nearly one-in-five transactions for the entire year, were down 0.8% on the same month in 2010 UK car sales will be flat next year, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), as lacklustre figures for the key buying month of September crushed hopes of a strong recovery in 2012. The trade body for British carmakers and retailers said new registrations in September, which traditionally account for nearly one-in-five transactions for the entire year, were down 0.8% on the same month in 2010, with 332,476 vehicles signed up. The top 10 vehicles also appear to reflect straitened times on the road as well as the high street, with the Ford Fiesta and Focus the top-selling brands. It means the UK car market is on track for a 5% fall on last year’s performance, when the industry and motorists were still benefiting from the tail-end of the government’s scrappage scheme, which subsidised the replacement of dated vehicles with cars straight off the production line. The SMMT’s chief executive, Paul Everitt, said a hoped-for recovery in sales had yet to materialise, forcing the adjustment of predictions that vehicle acquisitions would rise by up to 5% in 2012. Instead, they will just edge above the predicted 2011 total of 1.92m units, to 1.96m. “We had expected at this point to see more positive growth and a stronger recovery, something which we are clearly not seeing. As a consequence we have downgraded our forecast for 2012. We had expected it to be just above 2m [units].” Everitt said sales of car fleets and vehicles to businesses had been strong in September, “as has been the case throughout the year”, but that has not been matched by the consumer. “There has been a much weaker demand in the private retail part of the market. It means that dealerships are having a difficult times.” The private market fell 9% in September, the SMMT said. Brighter outlook for domestic manufacturers The SMMT stressed that a weak consumer outlook has not translated into doom and gloom for resurgent domestic car manufacturers. Britain is set to make 1.5m cars this year, rising to about 1.6m in 2012, underlining the industry’s strength as one of the UK’s biggest exporters, with about eight out of 10 of those vehicles to be sold to overseas buyers. Everitt said there was no sign of an effect on UK manufacturers – led by the likes of Bentley, Jaguar Land Rover, Bentley and Japanese giants Nissan and Toyota – of the ill winds blowing through the world economy.”There are some issues out there but at the moment we feel reasonably confident on exports. Markets like China, India, Russia and even the US are all growing. Companies like Bentley, Rolls, Aston Martin and Jaguar Land Rover are seeing good growth in those markets. We are probably more positive on manufacturing than perhaps some other sectors. We can see the desirability of these products in some key markets,” said Everitt. The Mini – also popular in the US and China – makes an appearance in the September top 10 best-sellers list. Despite the SMMT’s bullishness, Everitt urged the government to give more support to manufacturers, including extending tax credits for research and development, using capital allowance loopholes to encourage investment in factories and ensuring that a forthcoming “credit easing” programme helps companies rather than banks. “It is important that they develop a mechanism that allows the money to find its way to the companies that need it and want to spend it on the economy,” he said. Automotive industry Motoring Consumer spending Ford Dan Milmo guardian.co.uk
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New registrations in September, which traditionally account for nearly one-in-five transactions for the entire year, were down 0.8% on the same month in 2010 UK car sales will be flat next year, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), as lacklustre figures for the key buying month of September crushed hopes of a strong recovery in 2012. The trade body for British carmakers and retailers said new registrations in September, which traditionally account for nearly one-in-five transactions for the entire year, were down 0.8% on the same month in 2010, with 332,476 vehicles signed up. The top 10 vehicles also appear to reflect straitened times on the road as well as the high street, with the Ford Fiesta and Focus the top-selling brands. It means the UK car market is on track for a 5% fall on last year’s performance, when the industry and motorists were still benefiting from the tail-end of the government’s scrappage scheme, which subsidised the replacement of dated vehicles with cars straight off the production line. The SMMT’s chief executive, Paul Everitt, said a hoped-for recovery in sales had yet to materialise, forcing the adjustment of predictions that vehicle acquisitions would rise by up to 5% in 2012. Instead, they will just edge above the predicted 2011 total of 1.92m units, to 1.96m. “We had expected at this point to see more positive growth and a stronger recovery, something which we are clearly not seeing. As a consequence we have downgraded our forecast for 2012. We had expected it to be just above 2m [units].” Everitt said sales of car fleets and vehicles to businesses had been strong in September, “as has been the case throughout the year”, but that has not been matched by the consumer. “There has been a much weaker demand in the private retail part of the market. It means that dealerships are having a difficult times.” The private market fell 9% in September, the SMMT said. Brighter outlook for domestic manufacturers The SMMT stressed that a weak consumer outlook has not translated into doom and gloom for resurgent domestic car manufacturers. Britain is set to make 1.5m cars this year, rising to about 1.6m in 2012, underlining the industry’s strength as one of the UK’s biggest exporters, with about eight out of 10 of those vehicles to be sold to overseas buyers. Everitt said there was no sign of an effect on UK manufacturers – led by the likes of Bentley, Jaguar Land Rover, Bentley and Japanese giants Nissan and Toyota – of the ill winds blowing through the world economy.”There are some issues out there but at the moment we feel reasonably confident on exports. Markets like China, India, Russia and even the US are all growing. Companies like Bentley, Rolls, Aston Martin and Jaguar Land Rover are seeing good growth in those markets. We are probably more positive on manufacturing than perhaps some other sectors. We can see the desirability of these products in some key markets,” said Everitt. The Mini – also popular in the US and China – makes an appearance in the September top 10 best-sellers list. Despite the SMMT’s bullishness, Everitt urged the government to give more support to manufacturers, including extending tax credits for research and development, using capital allowance loopholes to encourage investment in factories and ensuring that a forthcoming “credit easing” programme helps companies rather than banks. “It is important that they develop a mechanism that allows the money to find its way to the companies that need it and want to spend it on the economy,” he said. Automotive industry Motoring Consumer spending Ford Dan Milmo guardian.co.uk
Continue reading …New registrations in September, which traditionally account for nearly one-in-five transactions for the entire year, were down 0.8% on the same month in 2010 UK car sales will be flat next year, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), as lacklustre figures for the key buying month of September crushed hopes of a strong recovery in 2012. The trade body for British carmakers and retailers said new registrations in September, which traditionally account for nearly one-in-five transactions for the entire year, were down 0.8% on the same month in 2010, with 332,476 vehicles signed up. The top 10 vehicles also appear to reflect straitened times on the road as well as the high street, with the Ford Fiesta and Focus the top-selling brands. It means the UK car market is on track for a 5% fall on last year’s performance, when the industry and motorists were still benefiting from the tail-end of the government’s scrappage scheme, which subsidised the replacement of dated vehicles with cars straight off the production line. The SMMT’s chief executive, Paul Everitt, said a hoped-for recovery in sales had yet to materialise, forcing the adjustment of predictions that vehicle acquisitions would rise by up to 5% in 2012. Instead, they will just edge above the predicted 2011 total of 1.92m units, to 1.96m. “We had expected at this point to see more positive growth and a stronger recovery, something which we are clearly not seeing. As a consequence we have downgraded our forecast for 2012. We had expected it to be just above 2m [units].” Everitt said sales of car fleets and vehicles to businesses had been strong in September, “as has been the case throughout the year”, but that has not been matched by the consumer. “There has been a much weaker demand in the private retail part of the market. It means that dealerships are having a difficult times.” The private market fell 9% in September, the SMMT said. Brighter outlook for domestic manufacturers The SMMT stressed that a weak consumer outlook has not translated into doom and gloom for resurgent domestic car manufacturers. Britain is set to make 1.5m cars this year, rising to about 1.6m in 2012, underlining the industry’s strength as one of the UK’s biggest exporters, with about eight out of 10 of those vehicles to be sold to overseas buyers. Everitt said there was no sign of an effect on UK manufacturers – led by the likes of Bentley, Jaguar Land Rover, Bentley and Japanese giants Nissan and Toyota – of the ill winds blowing through the world economy.”There are some issues out there but at the moment we feel reasonably confident on exports. Markets like China, India, Russia and even the US are all growing. Companies like Bentley, Rolls, Aston Martin and Jaguar Land Rover are seeing good growth in those markets. We are probably more positive on manufacturing than perhaps some other sectors. We can see the desirability of these products in some key markets,” said Everitt. The Mini – also popular in the US and China – makes an appearance in the September top 10 best-sellers list. Despite the SMMT’s bullishness, Everitt urged the government to give more support to manufacturers, including extending tax credits for research and development, using capital allowance loopholes to encourage investment in factories and ensuring that a forthcoming “credit easing” programme helps companies rather than banks. “It is important that they develop a mechanism that allows the money to find its way to the companies that need it and want to spend it on the economy,” he said. Automotive industry Motoring Consumer spending Ford Dan Milmo guardian.co.uk
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Full coverage of the first seminar in the inquiry into media standards and ethics, where those appearing include former News of the World editor Phil Hall 10.20am: Peppiatt says the issue is that every journalist has to fit in with his or her proprietor’s agenda. In approximately 900 newspaper bylines I can probably count on fingers and toes the times I felt I was genuinely telling the truth, yet only a similar number could be classed as outright lies. This is because as much as the skill of a journalist today is about finding facts, it is also, particularly at the tabloid end of the market, about knowing what facts to ignore. The job is about making the facts fit the story, because the story is almost pre-defined. The newspaper appoints itself moral arbiter, and it is your job to stamp their worldview on all the journalism you do. If a scientist announces their research has found ecstasy to be safer than alcohol, as a tabloid reporter I know my job is to portray this man as a quack, and his methods flawed. If a judge passes down a community sentence to a controversial offender, I know my job is to make them appear lily- livered and out-of-touch. Positive peer reviews are ignored; sentencing guidelines are buried. The ideological imperative comes before the journalistic one – drugs are always bad, British justice is always soft. 10.19am: Richard Pappiatt, the former Daily Star reporter is now presenting. “When the PCC won’t even enforce the first section of their code – ‘The press must take care not to publish inaccurate, misleading or distorted information’ – is it any surprise that newspapers push the boundaries, hacking phones, bribing police, pursuing their own commercial and ideological aims under the cloak of journalism, with reporters used as the foot soldiers?” he asks. Pappiatt quit the Star last week protesting he was routinely asked to make up stories. 10.16am: Hall talks about the harassment of Princess Diana and notes that none of the paparazzi who chased her, day in day out, were arrested. “Why did the authorities not use the tools available to them” he asks saying he thought the problem would have been sorted overnight had the police had done something at the time. He tells the audience of about 100 that journalists often did things that those in power didn’t like and that yes, sometimes they were ‘ruse, aggressive and unreasonable”. But he says: “I have no idea how we legislate against human nature.” 10.11am: Apologies everyone for the late start – the wifi system at QEII is unusual to stay the least. Ex News of the World editor Phil Hall is now on his feet. “Pressure is increased as circulations dwindle”, he says. There were some exceptions years ago – the News of the World, the Daily Mail on Mail on Sunday, Sunday Times were pre-eminent and were not under pressure to get salacious. But big scoops didn’t necessarily deliver sales increases. The Jeffrey Archer exclusive in the News of the World when he was editor did not increase circulation. 9.39am: Good morning from the Queen Elizabeth conference centre where the first two of three Leveson inquiry seminars is taking place. This morning the inquiry is looking at the pressures facing journalists in a competitive environment and among the speakers are Phil Hall, a former News of the World editor and a former Daily Star journalist, Richard Peppiatt. He quit the paper last year protesting that he had been routinely told to make stories up or at least ignore some relevant facts. We’ll be here all day – I’m joined by colleagues James Robinson and Amelia Hill who will be filing stories throughout. Leveson inquiry Phone hacking National newspapers Newspapers Newspapers & magazines Lord Justice Leveson Lisa O’Carroll guardian.co.uk
Continue reading …A fellow titan of the tech world salutes the late Steve Jobs : “Steve, thank you for being a mentor and a friend,” writes Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook . “Thanks for showing that what you build can change the world. I will miss you.” (Click for Bill Gates’ statement .) Others: President…
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