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A crew member on a Royal Navy submarine explains how cruise missiles are fired (The Guardian, London, 17 July)
鈥淭his shows you that long-distance relationships do work.鈥�
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Cosmonaut Ekaterina Dmitriev on her forthcoming marriage to colleague Yuri Malenchenko, who is orbiting Earth on the International Space Station (Associated Press, 18 July)
鈥淭here is a lot of hard work. They are not swanning around sightseeing.鈥�
Surgeon Hugh Phillips on the UK National Audit Office鈥檚 claim that some doctors take foreign trips courtesy of artificial hip manufacturers in return for fitting their products (BBC Online, 17 July)
鈥淲e show the couple their embryos. That always gives me a kick.鈥�
John Webster, who this week celebrates the 25th anniversary of helping deliver the world鈥檚 first test-tube baby (BBC Online, 21 July)
鈥淭he dogs spent hours walking back and forth across the field figuring out how to walk faster.鈥�
William Uther, whose team won RoboCup, the competition between software designers using footballing robot dogs (ZDNet Australia, 17 July)
鈥淭his presents us with a big problem as we cannot demonstrate Mo in action to visitors.鈥�
Cyberneticist Kevin Warwick complains at the University of Reading鈥檚 ban on unaccompanied under-18-year-olds viewing his disembodied robot head in case they get scared (The Guardian, London, 17 July)