Quote of the day
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
Fang Lizhi
Born: February 12, 1936
Died: April 6, 2012 (aged 76)
Bio: Fang Lizhi was a Chinese astrophysicist, vice-president of the University of Science and Technology of China, and activist whose liberal ideas inspired the pro-democracy student movement of 1986 87 and, finally, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.