鈥淒on鈥檛 worry about the tsetse fly and the mosquito. They are God鈥檚 armies, which will protect us against colonialists. If they come here they will get malaria and sleeping sickness.鈥�
Libya鈥檚 leader, Colonel Mu鈥檃mmer Gaddafi, speaking to the African Union summit in Maputo, Mozambique, last weekend (The Times, London, 14 July)
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Chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix on the assertion made by Tony Blair to the UK parliament in September 2002 that Iraq was capable of delivering biological or chemical weapons within 45 minutes (The Independent on Sunday, London, 13 July)
鈥淪almon has never been used for clothing before, but it is ideal.鈥�
Fashion designer Claudia Escobar on her new range of fish-skin clothing that uses processed salmon skins imported from Chile (The Sunday Times, London, 13 July)
鈥淚 began to call them hyper-ducks.鈥�
Oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer, impressed at the speed at which a cargo of rubber ducks travelled around the world鈥檚 oceans after falling overboard in 1992. The ducks, whose voyage was tracked by scientists, are expected to wash up on the New England shore anytime now (BBC News Online, 12 July)
鈥淲hen sending an email, every French national should call it a courriel. Anything else is disloyal. And ugly.鈥�
The Times leader comment mocking the French government鈥檚 ban on the word 鈥渆mail鈥�. France announced last week that its civil service must use the official French equivalent courriel, which is an abbreviation of courrier 茅lectronique (The Times, London, 10 July)