鈥淢y name is Daddy.鈥�
Astronaut Mike Fincke, greeting his four-month-old daughter for the first time at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center near Moscow, after returning from a six-month mission on the International Space Station (NewsFromRussia.com, 25 October)
鈥淲e will not just dream about the hydrogen highway or hydrogen fuelling stations. We will not just dream about hydrogen cars. We will build them.鈥�
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California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who arrived to open a hydrogen filling station in a hydrogen-powered gas guzzler (Reuters, 22 October)
鈥淗overing in the background is the knowledge that almost every scientific development of the past has been used for hostile purposes.鈥�
Malcolm Dando, during the launch of his report Biotechnology, Weapons and Humanity II at a British Medical Association conference in London (25 October)
鈥淲e will not stop until every San Franciscan has access to free wireless internet service.鈥�
San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom on his plans to make the entire city a free wireless hotspot (Reuters, 22 October).
鈥淭he prevailing approach for dealing with obesity, which is to blame people who have the problem and hope the situation will disappear, is a fantasy.鈥�
Kelly Brownell, director of the Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders, commenting on a report that suggests that a quarter of the growth in healthcare spending over the past 15 years is due to obesity (The Washington Post, 20 October)