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What I learned from winter storm Nemo: news events need cuter names

I love it when people talk about the weather, since it's one of the few times I don't feel guilty about the fact that I never listen to anyone. But even I got excited about winter storm Nemo, solely because it had an adorable name. I thought this was surprisingly good governmental work--until I found out that Nemo was generated by the private sector. Hurricane names are chosen by the world's biggest bureaucracy, the U.N., which is why they always sound like kids sitting on a mat on a boring PBS show: Dennis, Irene, Andrew, Mitch. But Nemo was named by...

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