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Ah yes:

The House Committee on Controlling the Earth's Rubber Ball Effect

And of course, the new Cabinet member, the Department of the Really Interior Interior; no doubt, the Secretary will be an ex-C.E.O. of a major golf ball manufacturer.

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A speck in the universe ... the planet Earth in orbit, viewed from space. The Earth has become fatter round the middle in the last four years, according to researchers. Like a pumpkin, the planet is a little bit wider around the equator than a perfect sphere would be. For 19 years its waistline shrank, but since 1998 it has been expanding, according to a study in the journal Science. Photo: AFP