鈥淭his will absolutely save millions of lives.鈥�
South Africa鈥檚 representative Faizel Ismail on the World Trade Organization鈥檚 agreement to give poor nations greater access to cheap, generic medicines (NYTimes.com, 31 August)
鈥淚t鈥檚 one thing to pass out leaflets saying the cars pollute, but another to start setting fire to them.鈥�
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Sports utility vehicle (SUV) owner Steve Reisman on this new ecoterrorism trend (The Independent, 1 September)
鈥淪cience is a broad church full of narrow minds, trained to know ever more about even less.鈥�
Science writer and geneticist Steve Jones (The Guardian, 30 August)
鈥淧eople see this like it鈥檚 Star Trek, where we can take a swipe of a wand and find what ails them.鈥�
Robert Smith of the American Cancer Society on the rising popularity of full-body CT scanning (Los Angeles Times, 1 September)
鈥淵ou have to look where you walk.鈥�
Spaniard Esther Esteban describes the state of her country鈥檚 northern beaches after the Prestige oil spill last November (NYTimes.com, 31 August)
鈥淪ociety might dictate that life has to finish at a certain age regardless of health.鈥�
Actuary researcher Francis Fernandes on the financial consequences of a possible future cure for ageing (The Sunday Times, 31 August)
鈥淚鈥檓 sure that this mummy is not a female.鈥�
Egypt鈥檚 antiquities chief Zahi Hawass on the confusion over the gender of a mummy claimed to be Queen Nefertiti (Reuters, 30 August)