鈥淚 want the Republicans to stop their witch-hunt against researchers and research projects that don鈥檛 meet ideological litmus tests.鈥�
Democrat Henry Waxman on allegations that members of the Bush administration are trying to strip funding from studies they find politically uncomfortable, including AIDS research (Los Angeles Times, 28 October)
鈥淭he sea could become more important than the rainforest as a potential medical chest.鈥�
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Reuben Henr铆quez of Spanish company Phramar, which has derived a cancer treatment from sea squirts (The Times, 27 October)
鈥淚t works in such a wide variety of critters. Why would it not work in humans?鈥�
Leonard Guarente, a molecular biologist at MIT, commenting on studies on worms, mice and other animals that show cutting calories by a third increases life span by about 30 per cent (Chicago Tribune, 27 October)
鈥淭he whole point of leaving home is, after all, to go somewhere, not to endlessly circle the block.鈥�
Wesley Huntress of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and former head of NASA鈥檚 science office on why the agency鈥檚 long-term goal should be a manned mission to Mars (American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Science Policy News, 24 October)
鈥淎s much as people talk about privacy, they will give it up for the chance to win a Lexus.鈥�
Robert Caldwell president of marketing company RHC Direct of Salt Lake City explains how people giving away their email addresses has driven the surge in spam (The New York Times, 28 October)