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Bart Sibrel, a moon landing sceptic who claims Buzz Aldrin punched him after he accused the astronaut of faking his Apollo 11 mission (Reuters, 10 September)
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Christopher Reeve, on President Bush鈥檚 obstructive policy on stem cell research (The Guardian, London, 17 September)
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Climate researcher Keith Alverson, explaining methods of investigating past climates (Global Change Newsletter, 12 September)
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Reviewer Bart Blasengame, after prising a music CD out of Discman glued shut by Sony Music to prevent albums being pirated onto the Internet before release (New York Times, 16 September)
鈥淭he amount of uranium [Iraq] already has鈥s enough for three nuclear weapons.鈥�
杏吧原创 Khidir Hazma, who led part of the Iraqi nuclear bomb programme before his defection in 1994 (The Times, London, 16 September)
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Reply consistently given by the popular internet search engine Google in China, after the name of the Chinese president Jiang Zemin was entered (The Guardian, London, 14 September)