鈥溞影稍磗 with advanced computers have sometimes failed to predict major earthquakes, but ancient Indian astrology does have the tools to roughly foretell the time and sometimes even the exact date and time of an earthquake.鈥�
Indian Human Resources and Development Minister Murli Manohar Joshi (The Irish Times, Dublin, 4 August)
鈥淚f we do not take charge of our population size, then nature will do it for us and it is the poor people of the world who will suffer most.鈥�
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David Attenborough backs a campaign to control the UK鈥檚 population (The Sunday Times, London, 3 August)
鈥淢any groups are working on SARS, but do not know what the others are doing except by reading Chinese newspaper accounts.鈥�
WHO doctor Klaus Stohr on the shortcomings of China鈥檚 SARS research programme (The New York Times, 5 August)
鈥淚 ate genetically modified products. They had no effect on my health. This controversy is more political than scientific.鈥�
Archbishop Martino, who is preparing a Vatican report that will reportedly support genetic modification (The Times, London, 4 August)
鈥淚 want people to look at this extra ear and speculate about alternate interfaces on the body.鈥�
Australian artist Stelarc, currently based in the UK, who plans to implant a tissue-engineered ear on his forearm (The Observer, London, 3 August)