鈥淭his case represents an extraordinary decision by a woman in labour.鈥�
A doctor at Dr Manuel Velasco Suarez Hospital in San Pablo, Mexico, on a patient鈥檚 decision to perform a Caesarean on herself (BBC Online, 7 April)
鈥淲e all have a need to decorate Mother Nature because it belongs to us all.鈥�
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Marco Evaristti, Danish artist, after painting an iceberg red in Greenland (Associated Press, 26 March)
鈥淎nimals are more tactile and supportive. The workplace is seeing less of that these days.鈥�
Psychologist Cary Cooper on a Zoological Society of London plan to ask volunteers to mimic chimp behaviour at work (BBC Online, 7 April)
鈥淚t is as likely to happen next week as in a randomly selected week a thousand years from now.鈥�
Lindley Johnson of NASA tells the US Senate why it is important to search for objects that could hit the Earth (7 April)
鈥淥ur science has been in such a poor condition that it is simply unable to produce anything that can represent state secrets.鈥�
Physicist Valentin Danilov, who was cleared of spying last December, on the jailing of Russian nuclear weapons expert Igor Sutyagin for espionage (The Moscow Times, 7 April)
鈥淧eter has been very clever at keeping undercover. They thought they would never see him again.鈥�
Natalie Pritchard of the Earthwatch Institute, after a celebrated penguin was found alive and well in South Africa. Peter rose to fame after being rescued from an oil spill in June 2000 (The Guardian, London, 7 April)