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“What did the father say? He couldn’t say a thing – he just stood there blinking.”

New Russian mother Tatyana Khalina expresses her spouse’s surprise after she gave birth to her daughter Nadia, who weighed in at a colossal 7.75 kilograms – that’s 17.5 lbs (BBC online, 27 September)

“This is our way of seeing how God created the universe, and [the Vatican] wants to make a strong statement that truth doesn’t contradict truth; that if you have faith, you’re never going to be afraid of what science comes up with. Because it’s true.”

Guy Consolmagno, curator of the Vatican meteorite…

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