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“This case represents an extraordinary decision by a woman in labour.”

A doctor at Dr Manuel Velasco Suarez Hospital in San Pablo, Mexico, on a patient’s decision to perform a Caesarean on herself (BBC Online, 7 April)

“We all have a need to decorate Mother Nature because it belongs to us all.”

Marco Evaristti, Danish artist, after painting an iceberg red in Greenland (Associated Press, 26 March)

“Animals are more tactile and supportive. The workplace is seeing less of that these days.”

Psychologist Cary Cooper on a Zoological Society of London plan to ask volunteers to mimic chimp behaviour…

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