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   From: user4353@newsgrouper.org.invalid   
      
   Excited to be posting to rec.puzzles after a longish absence,   
   I've made a number of boring and useless posts.  Sorry.   
      
   To enforce self-discipline I shall endeavor to include a new   
   puzzle with every post I make.  Here comes a trivia question:   
      
   A species of great ape is acquiring notoriety for making   
   dramatic changes to Earth's climate.  Are there any other life-forms   
   who've ever had such a distinction?   
     **   Name at leazt one other lusty life family   
      
   Extra credit:  WHY is the above puzzle related to the following?   
      
   James Dow Allen  posted:   
   > I'm thinking of two men, unrelated to each other.   
   > Can you identify them from the clues?   
   >   
   > (1) Each of the two men created a famous phrase that might be described   
   >    as a political prediction.   
   > (2) Neither of the two men ever won a Nobel prize.   
   > (3) Each of the two men had a half-sibling who *did* win a Nobel Prize.   
   >   
   >   
   > Hints:   
   > Here are the two "political predictions" in an encrypted form:   
   >   
   > **  Betray a sovereign? The newlywed overvalued is.​   
   > ​   
   > **  Appreciate cure; buffoonery conquer; rhetoric amuses.​   
   >   
      
   At least two rec.puzzlers have indicated that they can read messages   
   hidden in the fashion of the Hints above.   
   BUT neither of afore-mentioned Nobel Prize winners have yet been named.   
      
   Cheers,   
   James   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)