These three kids had just scored some mini-bananas from an Italian tourist.

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After all, shoplifters would get short shrift for arguing that they really like bananas and paid for some last week, so ought therefore to be allowed to help themselves today.

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Given that we absorb some 40 millirems from our food (bananas being a large source funnily enough) each year, living in Denver gives you 50 millirems from cosmic rays, this seems a sensible enough low limit.

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There are hundreds of other varieties of bananas grown in Africa, Asia, Central and South America, some with superior flavor and texture, but none of them travel well, another strength of the Cavandish.

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