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“It’s not gourmet food. It can’t be…but the shrimp cocktail – I’ve had worse in restaurants on the ground.”

Space tourist Gregory Olsen reviews the cuisine on his $20 million flight (USA Today, 13 October)

“Too bad the hurricane season doesn’t end when we run out of names.”

An editorial in the Florida Sun-Sentinel on 14 October, shortly before Wilma, the 21st tropical storm of the season, was announced. Wilma is using the last available name; further storms will be named after letters of the Greek alphabet

“I’ve never understood why adults shouldn’t enjoy the same right to use verboten drugs as they have to suck on a Marlboro or knock back a…

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