(FORTUNE Magazine) – HANS BLIX, 61, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency at the U.N., on the prospects for revived interest in nuclear power: ''Every year takes us further from Chernobyl and closer to the greenhouse effect.''

LENARD MCDOUGALL, 45, chief of police in Chelsea, Michigan, on how a driver came to drive away the wrong brown car: ''The Oldsmobile key fit the Chevrolet ignition.''

M. DANNY WALL, 50, head of the Office of Thrift Supervision, on his agency's program to find strong merger partners, including foreign companies, for troubled savings and loans: ''We are calling this our arranged marriage program.''