鈥淲e are mostly sitting around watching DVDs and doing laundry.鈥�
The life of the weapons inspectors in Iraq (The Sunday Times, London, 15 June)
鈥淚mpressing your colleagues with glib comparisons between organisms and organisations is not going to help if you remain a closed-minded control freak who refuses to change.鈥�
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Reviewer Simon London on the vogue for applying evolutionary principles to business (The Financial Times, London, 17 June)
鈥淭he political lobbying of Canada was very inappropriate. Public health cannot be interfered with.鈥�
World Health Organization official David Heynmann accuses Canada of applying inappropriate pressure to get the WHO travel advisory on Toronto lifted (Toronto Star, 17 June)
鈥淚ran鈥檚 practice of flaring its oil wells wastes more energy than the country could produce with a nuclear power plant.鈥�
Baltimore Sun (17 June)
鈥淚 am spending 500 yuan a day to feed my civets. If I can鈥檛 sell the animals, I will be bankrupt within months.鈥�
A Chinese civet farmer bemoans the government ban on selling civets, blamed for spreading SARS (The Age, Melbourne, 17 June)
鈥淭his tree was a seedling at the time of the building of the Great Pyramids and of Stonehenge.鈥�
Horticulturalist Jared Milarch, who hopes to clone the world鈥檚 oldest living tree, a 4768-year-old bistlecone pine (San Francisco Chronicle, 17 June)