1. TERRY JONES, Florida pastor who led a Koran burning in March despite saying in September that he

would not torch the sacred Muslim text--"not today, not ever"; deadly protests raged in Afghanistan in

response

'As I have been saying since Day One, these terror trials belong in a military commission at Guantánamo.

I am absolutely shocked that it took Attorney General Holder 507 days to come to this realization.'

2. PETER KING, chair of the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee, reacting to the Obama

Administration's announcement that 9/11 suspects would be tried in military tribunals rather than civilian

courts

'The key strategy here in recovering this snake was patience.'

3. JIM BREHENY, director of the Bronx Zoo, after a sneaky Egyptian cobra, on the loose for a week, was

discovered in the zoo's Reptile House, just a short distance from her enclosure

'Now they don't need to kill people, but by detaining people ... they think they can snuff out criticism.'

4. AI XIAOMING, academic and filmmaker, comparing China's present-day stance on dissent--Chinese

artist and government critic Ai Weiwei was detained on April 3--with the violent suppression of the

Tiananmen Square protests

'Without question, 41 points and 12 of 64 is not good enough to win any game, let alone the national

championship.'

5. BRAD STEVENS, coach of Butler University's men's basketball team, which lost to the University of

Connecticut in a dismal NCAA title game; the final score was 53-41

$20,433

Amount of money that domain registrar Namecheap said it raised for Save the Elephants by getting

people to transfer from competitor Go Daddy; the effort was inspired by a video of Go Daddy's CEO

killing an elephant in Zimbabwe

700

Approximate number of flights canceled by Southwest Airlines in the days after a hole in one of its 737s

caused an emergency landing

75

Age of what is touted as Britain's oldest working television set; it will be auctioned in London April 19

1 IN 4 Proportion of baby boomers in an Associated Press--LifeGoesStrong.com poll who say they'll never retire;

about the same percentage, the AP also notes, say they have no retirement savings