¡°It can help criminals with strong wills escape legal sanctions and lead to weak-willed innocent people being punished.¡±

¡ª Professor He Jiahong, of the Renmin University of China, talking about the potential judicial consequences of torture.

¡°As an old saying goes: if you stay in a room with an orchid all the time, you won¡¯t smell the fragrance. Many Chinese students don¡¯t realize how beautiful their mother tongue is and few of them are willing to study it. However, some foreign students have been dedicating themselves to learning Chinese and studying the culture.¡±

¡ª Professor Fu Jie of Fudan University commenting on the Chinese contest held recently in the university, which was won by a team of foreign students.

¡°I am very cautious about cooking. I have to soak the vegetables in water for a long time and fry them at higher temperatures. However, I know that will not change anything.¡±

¡ª Wu Zhidong, expert in soil studies at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, saying that soaking, washing and boiling cannot remove heavy metal pollutants in vegetables. It has been discovered that the Yangtze River Delta in East China and the Pearl River Delta in the south have the most polluted soil in the country. The production of crops is decreasing by 10 million tons every year due to the presence of heavy metals in the soil. More than 12 million tons of crops are contaminated yearly.

¡°How can colleges involve themselves in such private matters as one-night stands? If students found to have experienced a one-night stand are to be expelled from school, how about those having ¡®two-or-more-night stands¡¯?¡±

¡ª A Shanghai resident saying that the new student guidelines of a university in Chongqing Municipality of Southwest China was ridiculous. It requires that students who are escort girls, concubines or have one-night stands should be kicked out of the school. A netizen also cast doubt on the regulation, asking whether teachers or heads of the university who had one-night stands would also be dismissed.