“The two girls are identical. They are a clone of my son’s cat.”
Lou Hawthorne, CEO of San Francisco-based firm Genetic Savings and Clone announcing his firm has cloned two cats, Tabouli and Baba Ganoush, in preparation for offering a pet cloning service (BBC online, 9 August)
“People think Saudi-bashing is the answer to energy consumption, but we’re not over here selling you SUVs.”
Nail al-Jubeir, spokesman for the Saudi Embassy in Washington, reacting to John Kerry’s policy to wean the US off oil from Saudi Arabia (The New York Times, 6 August)
“It sounded like an express train and hit the boat like a missile…
