Quotes of the Day

'We are being confronted with an unfathomable crime.'
GUENTHER PLATTER, Austrian Interior Minister, on the rescue of a 42-year-old woman who was kept in a cellar and sexually abused by her father for 24 years

'They offend me, they rightly offend all Americans, and they should be denounced. And that's what I'm doing very clearly and unequivocally here today.'
BARACK OBAMA, Democratic presidential hopeful, repudiating the comments of his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, after Wright repeated his controversial statements on racism and 9/11 during a speech at the National Press Club

'No community can hold its head high and claim to be part of the civilized world if it condones the practice of discriminating against one half of humanity.'
MANMOHAN SINGH, Indian Prime Minister, on the spreading practice of aborting female fetuses because of a preference for male children

'If China is serious then it is good, but if it wants to show the world that "we are talking" then there is no use in meeting.
TENZIN TAKLA, Dalai Lama spokesman, after the Chinese government reversed course and announced that it would meet an envoy of the Tibetan spiritual leader

'We really can't have a divided convention. If we do, it's going to be very hard to heal the party afterward.'
HOWARD DEAN, Democratic Party chairman, saying either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama should drop out of the nomination contest after the June primaries to unify the party

'My son did say the word paparazzi the other day, and he's only 2.'
GWYNETH PALTROW, calling the media attention given to her and rock-star husband Chris Martin "slightly disturbing"

JOURNALISM
79 Number of journalists murdered in Iraq whose cases remain unsolved, making it the world's most dangerous country for reporters
15% Proportion of murdered journalists whose killers have been brought to justice over the past 15 years. Of the 13 countries with at least five unsolved cases, the majority are stable, democratic nations

EDUCATION
64% Percentage of U.S. teenagers who use informal text-message slang in their written schoolwork, including abbreviations like "LOL" (38%) and smiley-face emoticons (25%)
56% Percentage of teens surveyed who consider good writing to be "essential" later in life

SHARKS
1 in 280 million Odds of being killed by a shark. About six people die in shark attacks annually; this year's count includes amateur triathlete David Martin, 66, who was attacked by a great white near San Diego on April 25
26 million Number of sharks killed annually by humans

DRUNK DRIVING
9% Percentage of U.S. adults who believe they have driven while over the legal blood-alcohol limit in the past month
52% Percentage of traffic fatalities in Hawaii in 2006 involving alcohol, the highest of any American state

Sources: International Herald Tribune; New York Times (2); AFP; A.P.; OK!
Numbers Sources: CPJ (2); Pew/Internet (2); TIME.com (2); AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety; National Highway Traffic Safety Administration