鈥淎ll I have is complete despair and the clothes I鈥檓 wearing.鈥�
Jesner Estimable, whose daughter was one of 600 people killed in Haiti after floods raged across the island in the wake of tropical storm Jeanne (BBC online, 21 September)
鈥淲e found a cyber-age nightmare.鈥�
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Jim Puckett of the Basle Action Network, part of a coalition of environmental groups reporting a burgeoning international trade in potentially hazardous electronic waste, such as discarded computer monitors and mobile phones (The Guardian, London, 21 September)
鈥淚t鈥檚 probably the worst year I鈥檝e seen. Some are saying it鈥檚 the worst in 50 years. Four years from now there could be little or no fishing going on by anybody.鈥�
Ken Malloway, co-chair of the British Columbia Aboriginal Fisheries Commission, after scientists reported unusually few salmon reaching spawning grounds this year (Vancouver Sun, 20 September)
鈥淸They are] very expensive lottery tickets.鈥�
Arthur Kellermann, chairman of emergency medicine at Emory School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, on the lifesaving potential of home defibrillators, just approved by the Food and Drug Administration for personal use without a prescription (Associated Press, 16 September)
鈥淏arrier equipment must be used.鈥�
Susan Gard of the California Division of Occupational Health and Safety, which has fined two porn film companies for allowing actors to perform without using condoms, considered illegal under state employment law that protects workers from exposure to blood or body fluids at work (Associated Press, 17 September)