PG Manney wrote: Journalists _everywhere_ used them and many still do. We delivered over half a megabuck worth of the things to the Los Angeles Times from the RSCC in downtown LA. And during the 1984 Olympics it was impossible to keep AA batteries in stock anywhere in the county, since reporters from the rest of the country (and planet) were going through them like pretzel sticks. -- Ward Griffiths "Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." [Denis Diderot, "Dithyrambe sur la fete de rois"]