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About 40 monkeys escaped from a zoo last week and blocked a highway in Austria, screeching at cars and outrunning authorities. Zookeepers think the Makaka monkeys (from Japan) escaped through a faulty electric fence at the zoo. Only a few were recaptured.

“Watching a competition you felt you could win was worse than getting picked last in gym class.’

Decathlete Dan O’Brien in Time magazine. He’s describing watching the Barcelona Olympics — he didn’t get to compete there because of a disastrous time at the Olympic Trials. But he didn’t give up – and in Atlanta took the gold!