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“I bought a brand-new Cadillac. I wrote them a cheque for it.”

Mike Smith of De Soto Parish in Louisiana splashing out after becoming a millionaire overnight. Energy firms are buying up land in the region after discovering what could be the US’s largest natural gas deposit (The New York Times, 29 July)

“There is a massive difference between no risk and a very small risk. Semantics make all the difference here.”

David Wilson of the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, responds to the Swiss Federal Commission’s suggestion that antiviral drugs are so effective that HIV-positive…

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