鈥淚 want people to know that he was a humanitarian as well as the greatest slugger in baseball history.鈥�
Linda Ruth Tosetti on the discovery that her grandfather, baseball legend Babe Ruth, died as a human guinea pig for an experimental cancer drug. William Maloney of New York University uncovered autopsy evidence that Ruth did not die of throat cancer caused by his tobacco habit but from a rare nasopharyngeal carcinoma (SportingNews.com, 16 August)
鈥淚 have climbed the Dhaulagiri (White Mountain) massif four times, and every time, I saw footprints of the yeti.鈥�
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Yeti hunter Yoshiteru Takahashi, who set off on his latest mission last weekend (Telegraph.co.uk, 15 August)
鈥淲e have a responsibility to the developing world to ask the question: can genetically modified crops help?鈥�
UK environment minister Phil Woolas responds to Prince Charles鈥檚 comments on the supposed evils of GM crops (Telegraph.co.uk, 17 August)
鈥淭here should be no question, in our country, of choosing between bear and man. The presence of bears in the Pyrenees reflects a willingness to protect biodiversity.鈥�
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy supporting the reintroduction of brown bears to the mountains of south-west France. Farmers say this will put their lives, and those of their livestock, at risk (The Guardian, London, 19 August)
鈥淭here鈥檚 always going to be a spore on a grassy knoll.鈥�
Vahid Majidi, head of the FBI鈥檚 weapons of mass destruction unit, on why the case against suspected anthrax mailer Bruce Ivins will never be settled to everyone鈥檚 satisfaction (LATimes.com, 19 August)