鈥淚f we don鈥檛 play God, who will?鈥�
James Watson on genetic engineering (DNA: The Story of Life, Channel 4 television, London, 8 March)
鈥淒estroying [terrorist] recruiting organizations may be successful in the near term but even more resistant organizations could emerge.鈥�
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Psychologist Scott Atran on how to stop suicide bombers (Science, 7 March)
鈥淚t could tie up the AIDS funding bill for weeks and weeks and weeks.鈥�
Holly Burkhalter of Physicians for Human Rights on how abortion opponents are holding up the US鈥檚 拢15 billion fund for global AIDS programmes (The New York Times, 6 March)
鈥淥ur country deserves a minister who is serious about fighting this disease.鈥�
Sandy Kalyan of South Africa鈥檚 Democratic Alliance opposition party. The health ministry has appointed an adviser who believes antiretrovirals cause rather than treat AIDS (The Guardian, London, 11 March)
鈥淭wo climate models both predict a dramatic decrease of the ice cover, which could result in a nearly ice-free Arctic Ocean during the summer months at the end of this century.鈥�
Ola Johannessen of Norway鈥檚 Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre (The Independent, London, 10 March)
鈥淧eople are buying canaries because we are expecting war鈥hey can feel danger.鈥�
Pet shop owner Mustaq Talib on soaring sales in Baghdad (Daily Telegraph, London, 10 March)