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15:54 UK time, Thursday, 16 August 2012
"Galaxy cluster's 'starburst' surprises astronomers". Not all that surprising - both Galaxy and Starburst are made, appropriately enough, by Mars. (Other celestial-sounding confectionery also available.)
Edward Green, London
Re Paper Monitor's note: crisp sandwich as in a sandwich made with crisps as a filling or a toasted sandwich? I'm fasting, I deserve an explanation.
MF, Oxford
'Astronomers have seen a huge galaxy cluster doing what until now was only theorised to happen: making new stars. Is this Simon Cowell's latest attempt to publicise the new series of The X Factor?
John Whapshott, Westbury, Wiltshire
So, chocolate and nuts are good for you? All we need now is someone to tell us that fruit is good for you, and then I'll not feel so bad about that bar of Cadbury's Fruit and Nut (other types of confectionary are available, though not necessarily quite so healthy).
Basil Long, Nottingham
25,000 bottles of red wine, 67,000 cigarettes and 92 kg of tobacco? That'll be some party.
Sarah, Basel, Switzerland
How apt that the link "Bill Gates backs 'future' toilet" appears on the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ website.
After years of finding my work sent down the pan by "blue screens of death" and unscheduled updates (followed by sudden reboots) when I'm away from my desk, I assumed that Mr Gates had finally given his operating system an appropriate new name...
Fi, Gloucestershire
Rob, you are right, even a 40 metre prescription would be hard to swallow, let alone a 40 mile one.
Susan, Newcastle
"Thames Town, Shanghai" looks fascinating. "Four miles of polluted rivers running through 1,000 acres of blighted semi-rural land will be restored and landscaped into scenic standards becoming of the English countryside." I'm sure it sounds authentic enough as it is, but they could ask Danny Boyle to arrange it all for them.
Rob Falconer, Llandough
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