For info. about some of DEC's more unusual research: After accidentally happening upon an interesting humorous web site, http://www.petting-zoo.net/~deadbeef/archive/, I discovered the following written by Mike Olson <mao(a)illustra.com>om>, back around 1989. Interestingly, the following URL is still reachable (it does get redirected, however). You will recall the DEC WRL technical memo of several months ago called "Characterization of Organic Illumination Systems." That work is described at: http://www.research.digital.com/wrl/techreports/html/TN-13/ due to budgetary constraints, the DEC WRL research team was constrained to running just a few experiments on just a few foods. Fortunately, DEC's semiconductor engineering group has carried out further experiments, and has discovered that at 140V RMS, kim-chi acts as a rectifier. [...] Sorry about posting this two months early. ;-) RDD -- Copyright (C) 2003 R. D. Davis The difference between humans & other animals: All Rights Reserved an unnatural belief that we're above Nature & rdd(a)rddavis.org 410-744-4900 her other creatures, using dogma to justify such http://www.rddavis.org beliefs and to justify much human cruelty.