鈥淚 arrived and this guy was hammering away on the teeth.鈥�
Shane Anderson of the University of California, Santa Barbara, who found a college student illegally trying to take teeth from a sperm whale that washed up dead on a nearby beach (Los Angeles Times, 10 April)
鈥淎 pratfall on the world stage.鈥�
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Pier Oddone, director of Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois, in a letter to staff about the failure of a magnet support supplied by Fermilab to the CERN particle accelerator near Geneva, Switzerland. Design errors were to blame (The Sunday Times, London, 8 April)
鈥淔emales may be adjusting their preferences away from males more likely to cheat.鈥�
Psychologist Simon Chu and colleagues at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston, UK, who carried out a study that showed women鈥檚 preferences are shifting away from attractive, high-status men who they consider more likely to be unfaithful (The Guardian, London, 7 April)
鈥淭his is not the time to be downlisting [manatees] and then diluting the protection for them.鈥�
Patrick Rose of the Save the Manatee Club, on a review by the US Fish and Wildlife Service that recommends changing the species鈥檚 status from 鈥渆ndangered鈥� to 鈥渢hreatened鈥�. Florida manatees suffered their worst year in 2006, with 416 deaths (The Washington Post, 9 April)
鈥淢y mother has been on diets and says what we鈥檙e saying is obvious.鈥�
Traci Mann, a psychologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, on a study showing that up to two-thirds of people who go on diets end up heavier after five years (The Independent, London, 10 April)