“Saudi Arabia does not ban anyone because hajj is a religious event.”

Saudi Arabia’s Health Minister Abdullah al-Rabeeah says no one will be banned from entering the country on the hajj pilgrimage due to swine flu (AP).

“I don’t think the court wants to send as draconian a message as the government is asking for. This man’s been destroyed.”

Dorrance Dickens, attorney for former NASA Chief of Staff Courtney Stadd, comments on Stadd’s sentence of three years probation and six months of home confinement after he helped a client gain millions of space agency funding (Space News).

“The status quo with respect to eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean bluefin is neither sustainable nor acceptable. Conservation of this species depends on science-based management and effective compliance with the rules on both sides of the ocean.”

Jane Lubchenco, administrator of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, urges the meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas to enforce an end to overfishing of bluefin tuna.