“In the spirit of the Kyoto accord, we agreed to dress more lightly.”
Japan’s finance minister, Sadakazu Tanigaki, on how government officials are helping to cut greenhouse emissions by taking off their jackets rather than turning up the air conditioning (The Times, London, 5 July)
“I came here in desperation and they have treated me like a king.”
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Businessman Arthur Winiarski after travelling from his home in Poland to Beijing to undergo the world’s first officially licensed gene therapy for cancer (The Sunday Telegraph, London, 4 July)
“I thought that my team was playing tricks on me and showing me a simulation of the rings and not the rings themselves.”
Carolyn Porco, leader of Cassini’s imaging team, on the closest ever images of Saturn’s rings (ABCNews.com, 2 July)
“There are things generals should stay up late at night worrying about. A talking Coke can isn’t one of them.”
Paul Saffo of the Institute for the Future on speculation that Coca-Cola’s promotional soda cans equipped with cellphones and GPS chips might be used to leak classified information (Associated Press, 2 July)
“Nothing but the ankles of the giraffe were visible when I went out there. I’m sure he smelt that fresh, cool water bubbling up and couldn’t resist it.”
Veterinarian Tyler Thomas of the Louisiana Purchase Gardens & Zoo explains why a 5-metre giraffe drowned after tumbling headfirst into a sinkhole that opened up when a water main burst in the zoo (Associated Press, 4 July)
