“Personally I don’t know anyone who has died of AIDS. I really, honestly don’t.”
South African president Thabo Mbeki. Several members of his party, including his own spokesman, have died of AIDS (The Washington Post, 25 September)
“They’ve had an incredible impact on high-end hotels. If the word ‘bedbug’ gets out, it scares a lot of people away.”
Entomologist Mike Lawton of the Californian company Western Exterminator on the return of the bedbug (AP, 29 September)
“A wasteful programme such as the planned moon landing is a giant misstep for China.”
Yu Maochun of the US Naval Academy…
