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Unconfirmed sources point to the fact that Neftali Rivera, Executive producer of Midtoon, insisted in including the sequences that begin today that have to do with a telescope.

"I think I have always liked telescopes," he answered, with a twinkling on the eye when we asked about it. He then proceeded to tell us a story of his childhood. We tried to get him to stop, but since he is also the main investor for our newspaper, the Midtoon Herald, we had to publish the following excerpt from a way too long conversation.

"When I was a kid, I always loved science. One time, when my parents asked me what I wanted for Christmas, I asked for a telescope and a microscope. Since we were not as affluent then as we are now, my parents told me that I would have to choose one or the other, but I could not have both. Choosing between the telescope and the microscope was one of the hardest decisions of my life, a decision that would shape my future. I wanted both, but could only have one."

"After much deliberation and analysis, using my pentium 4 computer, I came to the conclusion that the microscope was better. This was my logic: THe telescope helps you to see the stars. Most stars, I am told, are bigger than what they appear to us on the night sky. When you see them through the telescope, they appear a little bigger, but still way smaller than they are in real life."

"The microscope, on the other hand, is diferent. You are looking now at very small things, but through the magic lenses of the microscope, what you see is bigger than reality."

"After realizing this, the decision became a no-brainer. If one of them makes big things smaller and the other one makes small things bigger, there is only one possible answer: The microscope is better."

This reporter had to sit through all of Mr. Rivera's reminiscences and warns anyone who may be curious about these things, not to ask anything about the fact that Mr. Rivera's Brother actually had the opportunity to own a telescope.