“Under my watch, NASA will inspire the world once again.”
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama making his most detailed statement yet on space policy. He said previous reports that he would divert money from NASA’s Constellation mission to education were unfounded (SpaceflightNow.com, 2 August)
“These are 17 cheats who will not falsify the competition.”
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International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge on the would-be Olympians who have already been named and shamed for taking performance-enhancing drugs. They include seven Russian athletes and an Italian fencer (Reuters, 2 August)
“Booger was my partner and my friend. They are perfectly the same as their daddy. I am in heaven.”
Bernann McKinney, the first commercial client to have a pet cloned, on the five puppies that South Korean company RNL Bio created from her dead pit bull’s ear tissue. She says Booger saved her life when she was mauled by a mastiff (The Times, London, 5 August)
“It’s a nasty word but by God it should sound alarm bells in parents’ minds.”
Tam Fry of UK charity the National Obesity Forum, criticising the British government’s decision to urge schools not to use the word obesity in letters to parents advising that their children are overweight (The Guardian, London, 4 August)
“Henbane is associated with lots of mythical tales – it’s said to turn you black and it’s used in witches’ potions.”
UK celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson on a poisonous plant that he mistakenly tipped as “great in salads” during an interview with a health magazine. Thompson meant to recommend fat hen, which is a wild, edible herb (BBC News, 4 August)
