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The head of South Korea鈥檚 Institute for Sex Education, Seong Gyeong-won, explains why condom sales have rocketed following North Korea鈥檚 nuclear test (Daily Mail, London, 26 October)
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George W. Bush on his enthusiasm for Google Maps (The Guardian, London, 27 October)
鈥淚 might be the first nerd in space.鈥�
Charles Simonyi, billionaire Microsoft software engineer, who will blast off in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft on 9 March 2007 (BBC online, 26 October)
鈥淪ome of the money was spent in contacting the Russian mafia as we tried to clone mammoths. But you can鈥檛 say that [on an expense claim] so we expensed it as money for cows for experiment.鈥�
Disgraced South Korean stem-cell scientist Woo Suk Hwang explains his expenses (Reuters, 24 October)
鈥淥ver two years of research and development and testing went into making this product to make sure we didn鈥檛 compromise the taste.鈥�
Gregg Dedrick, president of Kentucky Fried Chicken, on the difficulties of replacing potentially harmful trans fats in KFC food (ABC News, 30 October)
鈥淚t was everything I hoped it would be, apart from actually flying.鈥�
Artist Mark Clews on his failed attempt to fly a 6-metre-wingspan wooden aircraft powered by a rubber band (The Daily Telegraph, London, 23 October)