“A left mouse push fires it. We actually asked for a big red button, but they wouldn’t give us one.”
A crew member on a Royal Navy submarine explains how cruise missiles are fired (The Guardian, London, 17 July)
“This shows you that long-distance relationships do work.”
Cosmonaut Ekaterina Dmitriev on her forthcoming marriage to colleague Yuri Malenchenko, who is orbiting Earth on the International Space Station (Associated Press, 18 July)
“There is a lot of hard work. They are not swanning around sightseeing.”
Surgeon Hugh Phillips on the UK National Audit Office’s claim that some doctors take foreign…
