鈥淎s a sport, cycling is dead. As a spectacle, it is still running 鈥� like a chicken with its head cut off.鈥�
French journalist Laurent Joffrin, on the news that Tour de France cyclist Riccardo Ricco had tested positive for a previously undetectable form of a banned blood-boosting drug. Two Spanish cyclists have also been disqualified from the race for doping (尝颈产茅谤补迟颈辞苍, Paris, 18 July)
鈥淧ea-soup air at the opening ceremony would be their worst nightmare.鈥�
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Victor Cha, director of Asian Studies at Georgetown University in Washington DC, on China鈥檚 鈥淥lympic shutdown鈥�, in which half of Beijing鈥檚 3.3 million vehicles will be pulled off the roads and polluting factories shut (Associated Press, 19 July)
鈥淎s a factor in climate change, it鈥檚 pretty clear that we don鈥檛 have any indication that this is important at all.鈥�
Jon Egill Kristjansson of the University of Oslo, Norway, after finding no evidence for a link between cosmic rays and cloud formation, a theory popular with climate sceptics (BBC news, 18 July)
鈥淚t鈥檚 New York. If it鈥檚 loud, and noisy, and you鈥檙e in a hurry, and the kids are crying, who is going to stop and read the calories?鈥�
Cynthia Kaufman, resident of New York鈥檚 Long Island, has doubts about a new rule that forces restaurant chains in the Big Apple to post calorie information about their menus above the cash register (Associated Press, 18 July)
鈥淕enetic exchange has not taken place.鈥�
US judge Donald Molloy鈥檚 reason for granting a preliminary injunction restoring federal protection for grey wolves in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho. He said the government has not shown that scattered groups of wolves are cross-breeding (Los Angeles Times, 19 July)