“The wrong question is always asked: ‘Can we afford to do it?’ The answer is: ‘We cannot afford not to.'”
Roderick Smith of Imperial College London, who is proposing that Britain build a £25 billion 300 km/h rail network (Financial Times, London, 25 March)
“The goal is to create an alternative to games where Arabs and Muslims are portrayed as terrorists.”
Bilal az-Zein of Hizbollah’s Internet centre, which has created a computer game in which the player takes on the Israeli army (Reuters, 18 March)
“I can hear all sorts of caribou cheering cheerfully and clashing their antlers.”
Canadian Environment…
