鈥淭ea works. You can drink enough to have an effect.鈥�
Les Baillie of the Welsh School of Pharmacy at Cardiff University, UK, on his study showing that English breakfast tea, drunk black, protects against anthrax and so could be a useful anti-bioterror agent (The Daily Telegraph, London, 12 March)
鈥淣obody has the right to unfettered liberty, and people do not have a right to endanger their kids.鈥�
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Bioethicist John Harris of the University of Manchester, UK, on parents in Belgium who were sentenced to five months in jail after refusing to vaccinate their children against polio (AP, 12 March)
鈥淭o survive, there are two things a salmon needs. To eat. And not to be eaten.鈥�
Dave Bitts, a fisherman from Eureka, California, suggesting that Chinook salmon have disappeared from the Sacramento river system because their smolts lost out on both counts (The New York Times, 17 March)
鈥淲e interpret the find as a case of complicated surgery which only a trained and specialised doctor could have attempted.鈥�
Greek archaeologist Ioannis Graikos on the clearly defined hole in a 1800-year-old skull found near the town of Veria, 75 kilometres west of Thessaloniki. Graikos thinks that doctors attempted brain surgery to try to save the woman, who had been hit on the crown of the head (Los Angeles Times, 15 March)
鈥淚 have used the Bosch drill myself when I鈥檝e been operating with Igor.鈥�
London-based neurosurgeon Henry Marsh on how he has used a battery-operated drill bought at a local hardware store to open up skulls when he performs brain surgery free of charge at a clinic in Ukraine run by local neurosurgeon Igor Petrovich (The Sunday Times, London, 16 March)