鈥淪he is the real thing. She is truly a miracle baby.鈥�
Liver specialist Jack Krige on a healthy baby born in South Africa last week after developing on its mother鈥檚 liver instead of in the womb (BBC News Online, 23 May)
鈥淲e wanted to find out what it takes to live in space.鈥�
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Student Dez Hopkins of Helen M. Knight Intermediate School comments on the discovery of his science experiment, which was aboard the Columbia space shuttle, in a Texas car park (CNN.com, 24 May)
鈥淚t is unrealistic to think we are going to go ahead and test but not use these nuclear weapons.鈥�
Democrat senator Edward Kennedy, speaking after his party failed last week to block measures allowing research on low-yield nuclear bombs (International Herald Tribune, 27 May)
鈥淲ith respect to the SARS outbreak, a prima facie case for a possible space incidence can already be made.鈥�
Astrobiologist Chandra Wickramasinghe suggests the SARS virus came from outer space (The Lancet, 24 May)
鈥淵ou can鈥檛 simply add water and bring it all back again.鈥�
UN environment specialist Christian Lambrechts on the difficulty of restoring marshes in Iraq that were drained by Saddam Hussein鈥檚 regime (ENN.com environmental news service, 23 May)
鈥淚t took a lot of time because you have to cut all of these things out of the plastic packaging.鈥�
Craig Steffen of the University of Illinois on the trials of building a supercomputer using an array of Sony PlayStation 2 games consoles (NYTimes.com, 26 May)