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Soundbites

“This case represents an extraordinary decision by a woman in labour.â€

A doctor at Dr Manuel Velasco Suarez Hospital in San Pablo, Mexico, on a patient’s decision to perform a Caesarean on herself (BBC Online, 7 April)

“We all have a need to decorate Mother Nature because it belongs to us all.â€

Marco Evaristti, Danish artist, after painting an iceberg red in Greenland (Associated Press, 26 March)

“Animals are more tactile and supportive. The workplace is seeing less of that these days.â€

Psychologist Cary Cooper on a Zoological Society of London plan to ask volunteers to mimic chimp behaviour at work (BBC Online, 7 April)

“It is as likely to happen next week as in a randomly selected week a thousand years from now.â€

Lindley Johnson of NASA tells the US Senate why it is important to search for objects that could hit the Earth (7 April)

“Our science has been in such a poor condition that it is simply unable to produce anything that can represent state secrets.â€

Physicist Valentin Danilov, who was cleared of spying last December, on the jailing of Russian nuclear weapons expert Igor Sutyagin for espionage (The Moscow Times, 7 April)

“Peter has been very clever at keeping undercover. They thought they would never see him again.â€

Natalie Pritchard of the Earthwatch Institute, after a celebrated penguin was found alive and well in South Africa. Peter rose to fame after being rescued from an oil spill in June 2000 (The Guardian, London, 7 April)