鈥淗ow does it feel to be a pregnant man? Incredible. Despite the fact that my belly is growing, I am stable and confident being the man that I am.鈥�
Thomas Beatie, who describes himself as a transgender male, claims in a magazine article that he is five months pregnant. He kept his reproductive organs after his sex-change operation (The Advocate, Los Angeles, 25 March)
鈥淭he banks should have embraced this wholeheartedly and they didn鈥檛. But it鈥檚 a start.鈥�
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Cathy Flanagan, one of the organisers of Earth Hour, a timed voluntary blackout in cities all over the world to highlight climate change, lamenting the fact that in her city of Dublin many empty offices left their lights on (Associated Press, 29 March)
鈥淭hey want people to pay for their incompetence and their mistakes.鈥�
Frank Silvestri is angry that he and many others affected by hurricane Katrina are now being chased for money by a private contractor, ICF International, after it overpaid them in federal grants to repair their homes 鈥� in some cases by as much as $150,000 (Associated Press, 29 March)
鈥淚t is a classic example of a short-term fix now unravelling.鈥�
Tim Lang of the UK Sustainable Development Commission, who is not celebrating the 75th anniversary of the invention of the plastic bag (The Independent, London, 26 March)
鈥淚t鈥檚 only about 20 kilograms, which is half a bag of dog biscuits or whatever.鈥�
Australian outback farmer James Stirton has asked NASA to help identify a mangled piece of metal he found on his ranch. He thinks it might be a chunk of fallen satellite (ABC News, 31 March)