“From a perspective of pupil performance it can enhance things, because that heating effect actually improves the neuron transfers between neural pathways, and therefore your thinking ability goes up.”
David Butler, head of the UK’s National Confederation of Parent Teacher Associations, tells a meeting sponsored by a mobile phone company that cellphones can improve schoolchildren’s thinking (BBC News Online, 22 September)
“When we posed online as potential buyers, ivory sellers in Shanghai and Guangzhou assured us that getting ivory into the United States would be no problem.”
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Simon Habel of the trade-monitoring network TRAFFIC, which has exposed a boom in illegal ivory sales via the internet (AP, 24 September)
“This man would fish in the snow, and this way, he’s part of the sea, and part of its renewal.”
New Jersey resident Ruth Townsend on a family friend whose ashes were mixed into a “reef ball”, a hollow concrete sphere, and sunk at sea to form an artificial reef (New York Times, 25 September)
“Science counts and it has not counted sufficiently in this administration.”
Internet pioneer Vint Cerf, one of 25 illustrious scientists, including eight Nobel prizewinners, who plan to tour swing states telling voters Bush is bad for science (New York Times, 28 September)
“They can’t let me in the pool until they can get me out.”
Patrick Deuel, who weighed 486 kilograms when admitted to a hospital in South Dakota (AP, 21 September)
