“There is very little control. Mass education means it’s no longer possible for any individual to know exactly who their students are.”
Anthony Glees, director of Brunel University’s centre for intelligence and security studies, on purported links between students at British universities and terrorism (The Guardian, 19 July)
“To see magic mushrooms alongside crack cocaine and heroin doesn’t seem proportionate.”
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Petra Maxwell of information body Drugscope, as the British law that redefines magic mushrooms as a class-A drug comes into force (BBC Online, 18 July)
“It’s just like having a baby. You know it is coming, but you don’t know what to expect.”
Carlos Acevedo, director of Cameron County’s emergency communications team in south Texas, as Emily, the strongest July hurricane on record, heads his way (CNN.com, 19 July)
“I think it helps the audiences enter more into the visceral nature of the text.”
Giles Block, who will direct Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida at London’s Globe Theatre next month using 16th century pronunciation (BBC Online, 19 July)
“A male gorilla has the most wonderful pungent smell.”
David Field, head of animal care at the Zoological Society of London, describing one of the benefits of a new gorilla enclosure allowing visitors to get within sniffing distance of the animals (The Guardian, 19 July)
