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Cheesed off

I note with amusement you have been talking about cheese and how brains love it (July, p66). How about those of us that cannot stand the stuff? What are we missing? To me, it is disgusting in any form, no exceptions-like eating something gone bad!

Thomas Stanley

What’s up with that?

In April’s (p51), it said that astronomers are questioning why the Universe is still expanding, when it should be slowing down or at a plateau. “We still don’t really understand,

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