鈥淭here are more regulations covering a shipment of oranges coming into California than a shipment of human knees.鈥�
Todd Olson, director of anatomical donations at Albert Einstein Medical School of New York, on news that the University of California is considering fitting cadavers with bar codes to curb a black market in body parts (Associated Press, 4 February)
鈥淛ust having a big goo-gun does not mean you have the capability to fix anything anywhere on the vehicle.鈥�
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A leaked NASA internal presentation questions the usefulness of the kit designed to allow astronauts to repair damage to the space shuttle鈥檚 thermal insulation tiles while in orbit (The New York Times, 7 February)
鈥淲e thought there would be three to five attacks in the past two years but we鈥檝e had 15 to 20 reports so far.鈥�
PhD student Guy Ballard at the University of New England in New South Wales on his surprise discovery that 鈥渞oo rage鈥� 鈥� kangaroos attacking people 鈥� is on the rise (The Australian, 1 February)
鈥淲e wouldn鈥檛 suggest that a new road should be carved through a cathedral, so why do we allow ancient trees and woods to be destroyed?鈥�
Author Bill Bryson joins a campaign to protect historic forests in the UK (BBC news online, 2 February)
鈥淚f music companies are going to set examples they need to do it to appropriate people, not dead people.鈥�
Robin Chianumba, whose mother was sued for file-sharing by the Recording Industry Association of America although she died aged 83 in December 2004, having never owned a computer (Associated Press, 2 February)