“I’ll be a president who harnesses the ingenuity of farmers and scientists and entrepreneurs to free this nation from the tyranny of oil once and for all.”
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama vows to pursue alternatives to oil in his victory speech after winning the Iowa caucuses (Associated Press, 4 January)
“We expect to be branded as being cruel to animals. The fact is in nature, if something goes wrong, it goes wrong.”
Helmut Maegdefrau, deputy director of Nuremberg zoo in Germany, defends the keepers’ decision not to intervene as a polar bear neglects her three starving cubs (The Observer…
