鈥淚f they鈥檙e incubating an egg, they鈥檙e just going to sit there and let the lava roll right over them.鈥�
Greg Balogh, whose team is trying to lure the world鈥檚 remaining short-tailed albatrosses away from their breeding site on a volcanic island in Japan (Reuters, 28 October)
鈥淎bstinence is fine for some, but not for everyone. What about poverty, which forces many young people to take sugar daddies or sugar mommies for money?鈥�
Advertisement
Edith Mukisa of the Naguru teenage centre in Kampala warning that a focus on abstinence rather than condom use is undermining Uganda鈥檚 anti-HIV drive (Los Angeles Times, 31 October)
鈥淚t would be better if they taught students what they should and shouldn鈥檛 do online rather than take away the primary communication tool of their generation.鈥�
Kurt Opsahl of the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation, after a school in New Jersey banned blogging (USA Today, 27 October)
鈥淲e need to see how wind, solar and 鈥� yes 鈥� nuclear [power], together with new technologies can generate the low carbon power the world needs.鈥�
UK prime minister Tony Blair on the future role of nuclear power (The Observer, London, 30 October)
鈥淚 said, 鈥榊ou鈥檙e stuck with me and I鈥檓 stuck with you for the next six months. I hope this goes well.'鈥�
Astronaut Ed Lu, at NASA鈥檚 celebration of five years of human presence on the International Space Station, reminiscing about being half of the first two-person crew to go to the ISS after the 2003 space shuttle disaster (CNN.com, 28 October)