鈥淣ow big pharma is looking to move to China in a big way.鈥�
Glenn Bridge, CEO of Bridge Pharmaceuticals of San Francisco, which arranges for drugs to be tested in China to avoid animal activists in the US (The Boston Globe, 25 November)
鈥淭here is just no evidence for intelligent design. It should be banned from science classes.鈥�
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Biologist Lewis Wolpert of University College London on news that 59 secondary schools in the UK are using unsolicited teaching materials sent to them by creationist groups (The Guardian, London, 27 November)
鈥淔acial sensitivity, as far as skin warmth and tactility is concerned, has been restored.鈥�
French surgeon Bernard Devauchelle on how face-transplant patient Isabelle Dinoire is regaining her ability to smile (The Times, London, 28 November)
鈥淚f we lost鈥� it could spell the end of the big SUV in California.鈥�
Dave Barthmuss, spokesman for General Motors for environmental and energy affairs, on the possible effect of lawsuits in California that aim to limit greenhouse gas emissions of sport-utility vehicles (The San Francisco Chronicle, 28 November)
鈥淗e called and said, 鈥業 love you, and I鈥檓 going to kill myself.'鈥�
Joe Lawson of Indianapolis, Indiana, remembering what his father said during their last phone conversation, before he succumbed to depression and committed suicide. That was in 1986, and Lawson was 16. A year later he climbed his first mountain. Now he aims to climb the highest peak in each continent to bring attention to the dangers of depression. He has already climbed Mount Kosciuszko in Australia and Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa (The Washington Post, 26 November)