鈥淔or the Kurds, weapons of mass destruction are not about dry accounting, they are tools of practical repression. Chemical weapons have been used against us more than 200 times.鈥�
Barham Salih, Prime Minister of the Kurdistan region in northern Iraq, calling for support for the war against Saddam Hussein (The Observer, 16 March)
鈥淚 actually woke up and smelt the coffee.鈥�
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Paralysed actor Christopher Reeve on being fitted with electrodes that allow him to breathe without a respirator. It means he can smell for the first time since the riding accident that paralysed him eight years ago (The Times, 15 March)
鈥淚t is clear that extreme forms of obesity are rising even faster than the overall epidemic and we are witnessing a real health tragedy unfolding.鈥�
Philip James, chairman of the International Obesity Task Force, claiming that the current methods for calculating global rates of obesity underestimate the problem by half. The real number may be closer to 1.7 billion (BBC News Online, 17 March)
鈥淲hen I set off in December 2002, the first few miles of my trip were fraught with danger 鈥� not from the usual hazards that one always expects at sea 鈥� but from fridges and all sorts of other floating rubbish which surrounded Tenerife.鈥�
16-year-old Seb Clover, the youngest person ever to make a solo Atlantic crossing, commenting on a survey of litter on British beaches (BBC News Online 14 March)