“I arrived and this guy was hammering away on the teeth.”
Shane Anderson of the University of California, Santa Barbara, who found a college student illegally trying to take teeth from a sperm whale that washed up dead on a nearby beach (Los Angeles Times, 10 April)
“A pratfall on the world stage.”
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Pier Oddone, director of Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois, in a letter to staff about the failure of a magnet support supplied by Fermilab to the CERN particle accelerator near Geneva, Switzerland. Design errors were to blame (The Sunday Times, London, 8 April)
“Females may be adjusting their preferences away from males more likely to cheat.”
Psychologist Simon Chu and colleagues at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston, UK, who carried out a study that showed women’s preferences are shifting away from attractive, high-status men who they consider more likely to be unfaithful (The Guardian, London, 7 April)
“This is not the time to be downlisting [manatees] and then diluting the protection for them.”
Patrick Rose of the Save the Manatee Club, on a review by the US Fish and Wildlife Service that recommends changing the species’s status from “endangered” to “threatened”. Florida manatees suffered their worst year in 2006, with 416 deaths (The Washington Post, 9 April)
“My mother has been on diets and says what we’re saying is obvious.”
Traci Mann, a psychologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, on a study showing that up to two-thirds of people who go on diets end up heavier after five years (The Independent, London, 10 April)
