鈥淚t was decided to abandon nuclear targets for the moment. I mean, for the moment.鈥�
Al-Qaida fugitiveKhaled al-Skeikh Mohammed claims nuclear power stations were the original targets of 9/11 (Al-Jazeera TV interview, 8 September)
鈥淚t is very difficult to engage him in discussion, and so he has got away with pronouncements that other people would not.鈥�
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Peter Higgson Stephen Hawking, who has bet the Higgs boson doesn鈥檛 exist (The Scotsman, 2 September)
鈥淚 would hope one could discuss scientific issues without personal remarks.鈥�
Hawkingon Higgs (also from The Scotsman, 2 September)
鈥淐annabis is substantially less harmful than alcohol and should be treated not as a criminal issue but as a social and public-health issue.鈥�
Senator Pierre Claude Nolin, chair of Canada鈥檚 Senate Special Committee on Illegal Drugs, which last week called for the legalisation of marijuana (The Globe and Mail, Toronto, 5 September)
鈥淕MO now seems to stand for grain market outcasts.鈥�
Dan McGuireof the American Corn Growers Association on the fall in US exports (ACGA release, 4 September)
鈥淭heoretically the police can arrest you if you are using your PC for playing games.鈥�
The Greek Internet Cafe Unionon legislation meant to ban online gambling in Greece (BBC Online, 5 September)
鈥淵es, we did it.鈥�
Spokesman Viktor Beltsovclaims Russia鈥檚 Emergency Situations ministry made it rain over Moscow, using a 1-cubic-metre ioniser (MSNBC, 6 September)