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“My name is Daddy.”

Astronaut Mike Fincke, greeting his four-month-old daughter for the first time at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center near Moscow, after returning from a six-month mission on the International Space Station (NewsFromRussia.com, 25 October)

“We will not just dream about the hydrogen highway or hydrogen fuelling stations. We will not just dream about hydrogen cars. We will build them.”

California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who arrived to open a hydrogen filling station in a hydrogen-powered gas guzzler (Reuters, 22 October)

“Hovering in the background is the knowledge that almost every scientific development of the past has been used for hostile purposes.”…

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