“I like the coffee-shop model. I think it goes well together, like a restaurant that serves alcohol that goes well with a meal.”
Richard Lee, president of Oaksterdam University, a cannabis dispensary and education group in Oakland, California, reacting to governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s call to debate legalising adult use of marijuana in the state (San Francisco Chronicle, 11 May)
“Today it’s like a champion athlete playing hurt.”
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David Leckrone, senior scientist on the Hubble team, describes the space telescope’s poor health as NASA prepared to launch a repair mission to keep it at peak performance until 2014 (Los Angeles Times, 10 May)
“Maybe whatever is causing this can be bottled and provide help for infertile couples.”
Krishnan Sribiju, a doctor studying the extraordinary number of twins in the remote Indian village of Kodinhi, which has seen almost six times as many twins born as the global average (The Daily Telegraph, London, 11 May)
“The special rule is a death warrant for the polar bear.”
Bill Snape of the Center for Biological Diversity in Tucson, Arizona, on a US government failure to cancel a Bush-era rule that exempts “activities outside the bear’s range, such as emission of greenhouse gases”, from the regulations of the Endangered Species Act, although the animal is listed as endangered (Oil Change International, Washington DC, 11 May)
“What she is likely to need the discount card for is a mystery.”
Brian Walker, whose wife died at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, UK, on a letter the hospital subsequently sent inviting her to become a member of its trust. The hospital apologised for its mistake (BBC Online, 11 May)
