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Japan鈥檚 finance minister, Sadakazu Tanigaki, on how government officials are helping to cut greenhouse emissions by taking off their jackets rather than turning up the air conditioning (The Times, London, 5 July)
鈥淚 came here in desperation and they have treated me like a king.鈥�
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Businessman Arthur Winiarski after travelling from his home in Poland to Beijing to undergo the world鈥檚 first officially licensed gene therapy for cancer (The Sunday Telegraph, London, 4 July)
鈥淚 thought that my team was playing tricks on me and showing me a simulation of the rings and not the rings themselves.鈥�
Carolyn Porco, leader of Cassini鈥檚 imaging team, on the closest ever images of Saturn鈥檚 rings (ABCNews.com, 2 July)
鈥淭here are things generals should stay up late at night worrying about. A talking Coke can isn鈥檛 one of them.鈥�
Paul Saffo of the Institute for the Future on speculation that Coca-Cola鈥檚 promotional soda cans equipped with cellphones and GPS chips might be used to leak classified information (Associated Press, 2 July)
鈥淣othing but the ankles of the giraffe were visible when I went out there. I鈥檓 sure he smelt that fresh, cool water bubbling up and couldn鈥檛 resist it.鈥�
Veterinarian Tyler Thomas of the Louisiana Purchase Gardens & Zoo explains why a 5-metre giraffe drowned after tumbling headfirst into a sinkhole that opened up when a water main burst in the zoo (Associated Press, 4 July)