鈥淚f we can do it, so can you.鈥�
Astronauts Mike Fincke and Gregory Chamitoff placed their votes for the US elections from the International Space Station (Fox News, 27 October)
鈥淲e are not military combatants, we are park rangers.鈥�
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Emmanuel de Merode, director of the Virunga National Park where nearly a third of the world鈥檚 endangered mountain gorillas live, laments the evacuation of the park after Congolese rebels seized its headquarters (mongabay.com, 26 October)
鈥淭his is something that people are born with and it is certainly not a lifestyle choice.鈥�
Trudy Kennedy of the Monash Gender Dysphoria Clinic in Melbourne, Australia, one of the team who found a gene linked to male-to-female transsexualism, says the finding strengthens the case for a biological explanation (The Age, Melbourne, 26 October)
鈥淭he situation is very clear. More ivory in the marketplace equals many more dead elephants.鈥�
Michael Wamithi of the International Fund for Animal Welfare objects to the first UN-sanctioned sale of stockpiled ivory since 1999. While the aim is to raise as much as $20 million to fund elephant conservation projects, many groups worry that the auction will only fuel demand (The New York Times, 28 October)
鈥淭here is no immediate public health risk, unless the individual consumes an extraordinary amount of fresh eggs.鈥�
Tony Hazzard, the World Health Organization鈥檚 regional food safety adviser, comments on the discovery of melamine contamination in eggs as well as milk in China (AFP, 28 October)