The economics profession in general is paying more attention to the cost of lives cut short or curtailed by injury and illness. The whole tobacco issue has encouraged this research.

There's more consensus . . . within the economics profession about how the world works than there was in the 1950s, '60s and '70s.

We spoke about those who perished, those who had their lives cut short. We spoke about irresponsibility and negligence.

We must attach importance to food safety because it is concerning people's lives ... We have been paying much attention and will pay even more attention to the security of food supply to Hong Kong,

Life is too short

Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.