“We’ve made mistakes in underestimating the strength of science in Iran and the ingenuity they show in working with whatever crude design they get their hands on.”
Chemical engineer Mohammad Sahimi of the University of Southern California, who left Iran in 1978, on the country’s nuclear potential (The New York Times, 5 March)
“I have not smoked for three weeks and have been on a chicken diet for 10 days because I want to show that a chicken drumstick does less harm than a cigarette.”
Italian health minister Francesco Storace attempts to allay fears about bird flu after the…
