鈥淭he government is afraid to lose face. It doesn鈥檛 want people to wear masks for fear of turning Hong Kong into a masked city.鈥�
Legislator Albert Chan, calling for the Hong Kong government to make face masks available for defence against SARS (The Standard, Hong Kong, 1 April)
鈥淧akistan鈥檚 nuclear programme is for our defence only and it will continue without any break.鈥�
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Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, Information Minister for Pakistan, (The Associated Press, 1 April)
鈥淗e keeps saying, 鈥楳ummy, when鈥檚 my baby coming?'鈥�
Shahani Hashmi, a British mother appealing this week against a court decision preventing the family from pre-selecting an IVF baby whose umbilical cord cells would save the life of her thallassaemic son, Zain (31 March)
鈥淓bola now combines with hunting for bushmeat and logging as a risk to the great apes.鈥�
Zoologist Jonathan Baillie in Gabon, on the threat to the lowland gorilla (The Daily Telegraph, London, 1 April)
鈥淭hey thought they were on the threshold of something new. Now most people are cynical.鈥�
Greenpeace鈥檚 Jean McSorely, on the closure of Calder Hall in Cumbria, the world鈥檚 first commercial nuclear power station (The Times, London, 1 April)
鈥淚f whales are closer in intelligence to the sheep than the dog, is it morally wrong to eat them if they can be harvested sustainably?鈥�
Mammalogist Tim Flannery, arguing in favour of whaling filter-feeders (Sydney Morning Herald, 29 March)