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Anthony Glees, director of Brunel University鈥檚 centre for intelligence and security studies, on purported links between students at British universities and terrorism (The Guardian, 19 July)
鈥淭o see magic mushrooms alongside crack cocaine and heroin doesn鈥檛 seem proportionate.鈥�
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Petra Maxwell of information body Drugscope, as the British law that redefines magic mushrooms as a class-A drug comes into force (BBC Online, 18 July)
鈥淚t鈥檚 just like having a baby. You know it is coming, but you don鈥檛 know what to expect.鈥�
Carlos Acevedo, director of Cameron County鈥檚 emergency communications team in south Texas, as Emily, the strongest July hurricane on record, heads his way (CNN.com, 19 July)
鈥淚 think it helps the audiences enter more into the visceral nature of the text.鈥�
Giles Block, who will direct Shakespeare鈥檚 Troilus and Cressida at London鈥檚 Globe Theatre next month using 16th century pronunciation (BBC Online, 19 July)
鈥淎 male gorilla has the most wonderful pungent smell.鈥�
David Field, head of animal care at the Zoological Society of London, describing one of the benefits of a new gorilla enclosure allowing visitors to get within sniffing distance of the animals (The Guardian, 19 July)