鈥淭his is such a beautiful lizard. But no one realizes the ability it has to tear off your cat鈥檚 head with one twist.鈥�
Herpetologist Kenneth Krysko of the University of Florida, Gainesville, on the trend for releasing unwanted exotic pets such as monitor lizards in the Everglades (The New York Times, 1 March)
鈥淚t鈥檚 amazing. I have rain inside the helmet. I have water on the visor.鈥�
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Cosmonaut Alexander Kaleri whose spacesuit malfunctioned during a space walk last week (CNN.com, 27 February)
鈥淢aybe women in higher grades are operating in a bit of a man鈥檚 world, and perhaps feel they need to adopt some male roles.鈥�
Jenny Head of University College London on her finding that women in senior positions are more likely to have a drink problem than less successful women (The Guardian, London, 1 March)
鈥淵ou can imagine your brain being augmented by Google. For example, you think about something and your cellphone could whisper the answer into your ear.鈥�
Larry Page, co-founder of Google, has grand ambitions for the future of his search engine (Reuters, 27 February)
鈥淭he bloody things hoover up everything off the bottom of the sea and all the fish are disappearing.鈥�
Norwegian fisherman Elvis Jenssen on the continuing invasion of huge red king crabs from Russia (The Daily Telegraph, London, 28 February)
鈥淚t鈥檚 like leaving a mortgage for others to pay off.鈥�
Space policy analyst Radford Byerly on the cost of George Bush鈥檚 plans for missions to the moon and Mars (Houston Chronicle, 29 February)