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To: Clappy who wrote (30924)	8/29/2000 12:28:15 PM
From: DepyDog	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 35685

Interpretations of nature from junior high, high school, and college test papers and essays submitted to science and health teachers (spelling errors preserved).... "When you breath, you inspire. When you do not breath, you expire." "H2O is hot water, and CO2 is cold water" "To collect fumes of sulphur, hold a deacon over a flame in a test tube" "When you smell an oderless gas, it is probably carbon monoxide" "Water is composed of two gins, Oxygin and Hydrogin. Oxygin is pure gin. Hydrogin is gin and water." "Three kinds of blood vessels are arteries, vanes and caterpillars." "Blood flows down one leg and up the other." "Respiration is composed of two acts, first inspiration, and then expectoration." "The moon is a planet just like the earth, only it is even deader." "Artifical insemination is when the farmer does it to the cow instead of the bull." "Dew is formed on leaves when the sun shines down on them and makes them perspire." "A super-saturated solution is one that holds more than it can hold." "Mushrooms always grow in damp places and so they look like umbrellas." "The body consists of three parts - the brainium, the borax and the abominable cavity. The brainium contains the brain, the borax contains the heart and lungs, and the abominable cavity contains the bowls, of which there are five - a, e, i, o, and u." "The pistol of a flower is its only protections agenst insects." "The alimentary canal is located in the northern part of Indiana." "The skeleton is what is left after the insides have been taken out and the outsides have ben taken off. The purpose of the skeleton is something to hitch meat to." "A permanent set of teeth consists of eight canines, eight cuspids, two molars, and eight cuspidors." "The tides are a fight between the Earth and moon. All water tends towards the moon, because there is no water in the moon, and nature abhors a vacuum. I forget where the sun joins in this fight." "A fossil is an extinct animal. The older it is, the more extinct it is." "Germinate: To become a naturalized German." "Liter: A nest of young puppies." "Magnet: Something you find crawling all over a dead cat." "Momentum: What you give a person when they are going away." "Planet: A body of Earth surrounded by sky." "Rhubarb: A kind of celery gone bloodshot." "Vacumm: A large, empty space where the pope lives." "Before giving a blood transfusion, find out if the blood is affirmative or negative." "To remove dust from the eye, pull the eye down over the nose." "For a nosebleed: Put the nose much lower then the body until the heart stops." "For drowning: Climb on top of the person and move up and down to make artifical perspiration." "For fainting: Rub the person's chest or, if a lady, rub her arm above the hand instead. Or put the head between the knees of the nearest medical doctor." "For dog bite: put the dog away for sevral days. If he has not recovered, then kill it." "For asphyxiation: Apply artificial respiration until the patient is dead." "For head cold: use an agonizer to spray the nose untill it drops in your throat." "To keep milk from turning sour: Keep it in the cow." ------------------------------------------------------------

To: Clappy who wrote (30924)	8/29/2000 1:16:22 PM
From: lurqer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 35685

Do you prefer HGSI Last time I gave a serious look at biotech was about 3½ years ago. Seemed as though there were a plethora of small companies each trying to "hit a home run" prior to burning up their cash. Some would make it; most wouldn't. Not being in that field I had no way of determining which would. Moreover in trying to locate some "expert" advice, I became disillusion at the abilities of others to spot the winners in this field. Now I realize this is very different from what you are doing with your afterhours trading strategy. Also to bet on the Genome Project I took a (small) position in INCY and HGSI (this was long before CRA existed). These are long term (multi-year) positions with which I'm quite happy. The only short term biotech money I've made is shorting (selling covered and naked calls) in last spring's mania. That was a psychology play rather than a biotech play Good luck in biotech. There's certainly money to be made in the sector, I just don't know how to do it. You know my Eastwood quote: "A man's got to know his limitations". All the best... lurqer