鈥淭he wrong question is always asked: 鈥楥an we afford to do it?鈥� The answer is: 鈥榃e cannot afford not to.'鈥�
Roderick Smith of Imperial College London, who is proposing that Britain build a 拢25 billion 300 km/h rail network (Financial Times, London, 25 March)
鈥淭he goal is to create an alternative to games where Arabs and Muslims are portrayed as terrorists.鈥�
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Bilal az-Zein of Hizbollah鈥檚 Internet centre, which has created a computer game in which the player takes on the Israeli army (Reuters, 18 March)
鈥淚 can hear all sorts of caribou cheering cheerfully and clashing their antlers.鈥�
Canadian Environment Minister David Anderson after the US Senate voted against drilling for oil in an Arctic wildlife refuge (Reuters, 21 March)
鈥淪o, I thought, what if I were a piece of DNA?鈥�
Dancer-choreographer John Pennington, who has created a dance about the human genome project called SPR Synthesis Project (Los Angeles Times, 23 March)
鈥淗e鈥檚 best remembered for announcing that his next version of the Osborne portable computer was so much better that nobody bought the current version and the company died鈥� Truly an American icon.鈥�
Slashdot reader 鈥渄ouglips鈥� on the death of computer pioneer Adam Osborne (24 March)
鈥淲ar was our top search term today, taking over from perennial favorites 鈥� sex, Britney and travel.鈥�
Nadia Schofield of Internet service provider Freeserve (Reuters, 20 March)