鈥淚n our planet, only weaponised states are friends. Strength respects strength.鈥�
APJ Abdul Kalam, former head of India鈥檚 nuclear missile programme, who was elected India鈥檚 12th president last week (The Times, 19 July)
鈥淭his is a triumph for Aussie surfboard diplomacy.鈥�
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New South Wales Senator Ian Cohen, after jumping into the sea with a surfboard ahead of a freighter to protest against the transport of plutonium fuel pellets near Australian waters (Reuters, 22 July)
鈥淚n no other country is it seriously contended that organic farming and genetic engineering can鈥檛 coexist. It is extraordinary that the idea has taken root here.鈥�
Prime Minister Helen Clark of New Zealand, where GM farming has become a big election issue (The Guardian, 22 July)
鈥淓very day more than 30,000 children die of preventable diseases.鈥�
UN Human Development Report 2002 (24 July)
鈥淚t鈥檚 kind of like a phone number [with] seven digits. Without an area code, you really can鈥檛 specify where the call is coming from.鈥�
Roman Terrill of Integrated DNA Technologies, the company that made the DNA segments used to recreate the polio virus, explains how difficult it is to know what they will be used for (The Boston Globe, 20 July)
鈥淚n space, no one can hear you sing.鈥�
Webzine Space Daily reflects on the news that Lance Bass, singer with boy band *NSYNC, is to be the first entertainer in space (18 July)