鈥淲ithout having yet cured a single living thing with stem cell research, I am still absolutely certain that it is going to be a major revolution in medicine.鈥�
Alan Trounson, head of Australia鈥檚 new Centre for Stem Cells and Tissue Repair (The Weekend Australian Magazine, 22 June)
鈥淎 future climate with warmer winters in the US would have a positive economic outcome.鈥�
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Stanley Changnon, on his survey suggesting that the warm winter saved the US $21 billion and prevented a recession (University of Illinois press release)
鈥淎fter I get a good run in, I even like the press corps a lot better.鈥�
President Bush urges people to exercise as a report estimates obesity costs the US $117 billion a year (The New York Times, 21 June)
鈥淲e鈥檙e looking for you to swipe your Amex card and take preventative, proactive control of your personal health.鈥�
Valerie McIlroy announcing that her company, Wellbeing, is setting up 121 centres worldwide where anyone can get an MRI scan (The Globe and Mail, 19 June)
鈥淚t was like finding out it was a family member who did this.鈥�
US Forest Service worker Lynn Young, on hearing a colleague had been arrested for starting the worst wildfire in Colorado鈥檚 history (The Washington Post, 18 June)
鈥淲hen the seal suddenly appeared from nowhere, I wondered what it would do. It took a matter of seconds to save the dog.鈥�
Chris Hinds of Middlesborough, England, who saw a seal push a drowning dog to the riverbank (The Daily Telegraph, 20 June)