“Those who trade liberty for safety all too often achieve neither.”
A US federal advisory committee echoes Benjamin Franklin in arguing that there should be greater restrictions on how personal information held on computers is used by government agencies (The New York Times, 17 May)
“This boat wrote the first chapters of the history of ocean diving. No one wants to look after her, so we have to.”
Alain Foret, head of the French Federation of undersea sports and studies, on plans to rescue diving pioneer Jacques Cousteau’s famous boat Calypso, now rotting in La Rochelle harbour (Le Monde,…
