鈥淐limate change is the most severe problem that we are facing today, more serious even than the threat of terrorism鈥� The US government is failing to take up the challenge of global warming.鈥�
David King, UK chief scientific adviser (Science, vol 303, p 176)
鈥淎mong ourselves, we think our inspection system is the lowest in the world.鈥�
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An unnamed manager with 鈥渘early 30 years鈥� service in the US agriculture department鈥檚 food safety and inspection service鈥� commenting on the discovery of the US鈥檚 first official case of mad cow disease (The Guardian, London, 12 January)
鈥淭he internet is about to go mobile, and that could make many things more difficult to prevent or detect.鈥�
John Carr of the UK child protection charity NCH, author of a report highlighting a 15-fold rise in child pornography offences in the UK in the past 13 years (NCH press release, 12 January)
鈥淪ome of the applicants for marketing jobs have even used text-style language saying things like: 鈥業 hope 2 hear from U soon鈥�. Do they think I would want someone like that promoting the company? It鈥檚 crazy.鈥�
Nina Hampson of UK lingerie chain Myla on graduate spam, in which job applicants bulk-email their CVs to companies (The Times, London, 13 January)
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An example of graduate spam (The Times, London, 13 January)