鈥淚f conservationists and whalers decided to sit together at a table and look for a solution, it could be they won鈥檛 find it, but we cannot give up trying.鈥�
Cristian Maquieira, Chile鈥檚 delegate to the International Whaling Commission meeting in Santiago, which ended last week with both pro and anti-whaling countries vowing to try to reach a compromise (AFP, 28 June)
鈥淲e will make all our efforts to finish this job. Forces from the entire province have become involved.鈥�
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A Chinese official in Qingdao, on removing the thick algal bloom from the Yellow Sea in preparation for Olympic sailing events in August (The New York Times, 1 July)
鈥淭his is a historic day in the struggle for animal rights and in defence of our evolutionary comrades.鈥�
Pedro Pozas, Spanish director of the Great Apes Project. The Spanish government looks likely to give apes some 鈥渉uman鈥� rights (The Daily Telegraph, London, 26 June)
鈥淲e never imagined that the same candidate would show up for both parties.鈥�
Steve Lamoureaux, chief innovation officer at Massachusetts-based Affinnova, which used an algorithm to identify preferences in the US for vice-presidential candidates and found that the top choice of Republicans and Democrats was former secretary of state, Colin Powell (Computerworld, 30 June)
鈥淚 feel more centred in who I am and what I鈥檓 doing.鈥�
Dede Osborn, a subject in a Johns Hopkins University trial on the effects of the hallucinogen psilocybin 鈥� the active component of magic mushrooms. Many subjects reported lasting spiritual benefits of the experience (AP, 1 July)