鈥淭he world deserves better toilets.鈥�
Jack Sim, founder of the World Toilet Organization, speaking to hygiene experts at the fourth annual World Toilet Summit in Beijing, China (Reuters, 18 November)
鈥淭o use violence against research at a university鈥s a serious blow against the basic liberties of a plural society. If we surrender over animal research, what comes next?鈥�
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The University of Oxford鈥檚 Chancellor, Chris Patten, on the injunction won by the university that stops animal rights protesters from disrupting construction of a primate research centre (The Times, London, 18 November)
鈥淲e make tyres. We specialise in feet of sorts.鈥�
Shinichi Kobori of Bridgestone, which has made an artificial tail fin for a dolphin that had lost most of its tail fin as a result of disease (Sydney Morning Herald, 19 November)
鈥淚t needed a big magnet; I knew I could find one of those. How tough could a vacuum system and chamber be?鈥�
Timothy Koeth who, as an undergraduate student six years ago, set about building a 30-centimetre particle accelerator that is now being used as a teaching tool in universities (Physics Today, November 2004)
鈥淲e think of ourselves as a nation of animal lovers and yet we are still trading in the world鈥檚 most endangered species.鈥�
David Cowdrey, director of the WWF鈥檚 wildlife trade campaign, is dismayed at a loophole that allows people who trade in products from endangered animals to escape prosecution in the UK, despite a law that is supposed to ban it (BBC online, 22 November)