鈥淚 am unapologetic about asking people to connect up their own responsibility for their total environmental footprint鈥� I think we will work our way towards a position that says having more than two children is irresponsible.鈥�
Jonathon Porritt, the UK government鈥檚 鈥済reen guru鈥�, suggests a two-child limit (Daily Telegraph, London, 2 February).
鈥淚 thought it was like the end of the world.鈥�
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Anchorage resident Maree Shogren recalls how the eruption of Alaska鈥檚 Mount Spurr in 1992 blanketed the city with a black cloud, while anticipating the eruption of another volcano, Mount Redoubt, which has been rumbling (Associated Press, 3 February).
鈥淣ASA鈥檚 role is to pioneer journeys into the unknown for the benefit of humanity. Along the way, we sometimes experience tragedy instead of triumph.鈥�
US president Barack Obama on NASA鈥檚 Day of Remembrance for fallen astronauts (NASA Watch, 29 January).
鈥淎 terrorist rodent who could very well have been trained by Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.鈥�
New York mayor Michael Bloomberg describing (tongue-in-cheek) the disgruntled groundhog at Staten Island Zoo which bit him when he tried to lure it from its cage on Groundhog Day (The New York Times blog, 2 February).
鈥淲e are anchoring the university in what is in the lab today, with an understanding of what鈥檚 in the realm of possibility in the future.鈥�
Entrepreneur Peter Diamandis on a school he is launching for futurologists 鈥� the Singularity University 鈥� with Ray Kurzweil and Google鈥檚 Larry Page (Financial Times, London, 3 February).