鈥淭alk with the patient while you are restraining him. Explain what you are doing and that you are using a restraint to ensure that he is safe.鈥�
NASA instructions for restraining a psychotic or suicidal fellow astronaut using duct tape, bungee cords and tranquillisers (AP, 24 February)
鈥淲e knew that we鈥檇 lost the war. Our psychological state was very strange by then. In those conditions, we could do anything, absolutely anything.鈥�
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Akira Makino, a former medical auxiliary in the Japanese navy, breaks a 60-year silence to describe how he performed medical vivisection on prisoners of war in the Philippines The Times, London, 26 February)
鈥淭his is one baby that clearly has come in from the cold.鈥�
Michael Chapman of the Sydney clinic IVF Australia, commenting on a baby born last year after a woman鈥檚 frozen egg and a donor鈥檚 frozen sperm created an embryo that was then frozen. Chapman believes the case is a first (The Sydney Morning Herald, 27 February)
鈥淭he message to men is: 鈥榃ake up and smell the java 鈥� it鈥檚 not just about women any more, it鈥檚 about you too鈥�.鈥�
Pamela Madsen, executive director of the American Fertility Association, a national education and advocacy group, alerts men to mounting evidence that they too have a biological clock (The New York Times, 27 February)
鈥淭he electronic signals resemble the signals generated by the brain that control body movement.鈥�
Su Xuecheng of Shandong University of Science and Technology, China, on a pigeon with electrodes implanted in its brain that allow him to control its flight (Xinhua news agency, 27 February)