“I wonder whether you know that whales consume more than three to five times the maritime resources [that humans do]. I also have to point out that there are 800 million human beings who are undernourished.”
Japan’s agriculture minister Tsutomu Takebe (Reuters, 4 July)
“The reason for the accident was a thermal explosion of torpedo fuel components. It occurred as a result of a leak of hydrogen peroxide.”
Russia’s Industry and Science Minister Ilya Klebanov announcing the results of an inquiry into the Kursk submarine disaster, the first official admission that it wasn’t caused by a foreign vessel…
