鈥淵es, we admit we are human too. We apologise that this thing happened.鈥�
Greenpeace campaign manager Von Hernandez on the damage caused by its flagship Rainbow Warrior II to a world heritage site coral reef in the Philippines that the environmental campaigners were supposed to protect (Philippine Star, 5 November)
鈥淲hen you鈥檝e got three kids getting ready for school鈥nd the network isn鈥檛 working because it needs an upgrade鈥� you鈥檙e going to go straight to your garage and get your sledgehammer.鈥�
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Ian Pearson, futurist-in-residence at British Telecom, on potential pitfalls of the totally networked home (Wired News, 8 November)
鈥淪ome people took five years, some people took six months. None of them were instantly addicted.鈥�
Ross Coomber of the University of Plymouth, UK, on a study showing that it takes more than one hit of heroin to become addicted (The Age, Melbourne, 8 November)
鈥淓very diesel car can be a tempura car.鈥�
Motoo Yoshimura, professor of environmental studies at Tottori University, Japan, who has started a bus service fuelled by diesel mixed with processed cooking oil, including oil used to make tempura (Asahi Shimbun, 8 November)
鈥淚t is the first time that sexual copulation has been discovered in a fossil state.鈥�
Ranjeet Kar at the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany in Lucknow, India, on the discovery of two 65-million-year-old slime mould cells fossilised in the act of sexual reproduction (The Hindu, 2 November)