鈥淜arl swung around and spat, 鈥楧on鈥檛 touch me鈥�.鈥�
Singer Sheryl Crow on the reaction by Karl Rove, President Bush鈥檚 deputy chief of staff, when she reached out to touch his arm and asked him to re-examine the evidence for climate change (The New York Times, 23 April)
鈥淲e walked for miles along pitch-black passages with the fossil forest just above our heads.鈥�
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Howard Falcon-Lang of the University of Bristol, UK, on the discovery of a 300-million-year-old fossilised forest in a coal mine in Illinois. At 10,000 hectares it is the largest ever found (The Daily Telegraph, London, 23 April)
鈥淪hell has taken my parents away from us.鈥�
Eleven-year-old Marie Corduff on how her parents have spent all their time for the past seven years fighting to stop Shell E&P Ireland building a $1.1 billion pipeline and oil refinery in their village in county Mayo (San Francisco Chronicle, 22 April)
鈥淭hey really are time-saves as you don鈥檛 have to wait around for your coffee to brew in the morning.鈥�
Jennifer Kuropkat of ThinkGeek on her company鈥檚 product Shower Shock 鈥� a bar of caffeinated soap for people who don鈥檛 have time in the morning to both shower and make coffee. It is claimed that two cups of coffee鈥檚 worth of caffeine from the soap is absorbed through the skin (The Guardian, London, 20 April)
鈥淚f you have a lousy lover, you can have a ton of testosterone and it won鈥檛 be enough.鈥�
Gynaecologist June LaValleur at the University of Minnesota, arguing that women who are increasingly resorting to the use of potentially dangerous testosterone patches to restore libido during menopause should instead be paying attention to the nature of their relationships (San Jose Mercury News, 23 April)