“Scientists with advanced computers have sometimes failed to predict major earthquakes, but ancient Indian astrology does have the tools to roughly foretell the time and sometimes even the exact date and time of an earthquake.”
Indian Human Resources and Development Minister Murli Manohar Joshi (The Irish Times, Dublin, 4 August)
“If we do not take charge of our population size, then nature will do it for us and it is the poor people of the world who will suffer most.”
David Attenborough backs a campaign to control the UK’s population (The Sunday Times, London, 3 August)
“Many groups are working on SARS, but do not know…
