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Date: 13 April 2004 14:55:53
Some opening paragraphs from articles in the Times today:
IT IS the ultimate hiding place for that unwanted gift you never want to see again: at a starting price of just £3.25 million, an American company is offering to dump it on the Moon.
A REVISIONIST film seeking to expose the myths of the Alamo has been attacked by conservatives in the United States as an affront to patriotism.
Some comments from said articles:
Gregory Nemitz, the company's president, said he was confident that an interested party keen to make his mark on the Moon would come aboard soon. “The MoonCrash Project would probably be attractive to some bored rich guy who is tired of playing with his radio-controlled model airplanes and wants to move up to the next level,” he said.
“No one really knows the truth about what happened at the Alamo because there are so few sources,” he said, “but we need it as a symbol, right or wrong. We need a symbol of blood sacrifice to inspire our soldiers. No single movie can destroy this in the long run.” T.H. Fehrenbach, the Texan historian and author of Lone Star
Dearie dearie me. What an interesting planet we live on. Sorry, make that: What a dull side of the Atlantic we live on.