To: scaram(o)uche who wrote (410 ) 9/10/2001 3:07:55 PM From: tuck Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1005 Rick, Right. Gotta admit there's not huge leverage in MCLS. >>Rigel will pay MediChem for research conducted by MediChem's scientists during the collaboration. MediChem will also receive milestone payments for completion of specified scientific achievements, and retain rights to certain technology, data and improvements to MediChem's structural proteomics technology platform. Rigel will also grant MediChem a right of discussion on all future medicinal chemistry partnering opportunities as related to the targets researched during this collaboration. << snip As for the story . . . South East Buttress of Cathedral Peak is a heavily trafficed route (5.6). It has been my experience that most holds on such routes are sound, because the traffic has already broken the unsound ones. Certainly one tests semi-detached flakes and such. But Tuolumne's knobs are usually pretty reliable. I was looking at a 25 foot fall down a slightly less than vertical face liberally speckled with knobs. To do so would have thus been very ugly. But this was unlikely as I was on easy ground, and I had my hands on good holds overhead. The knob that I was starting to stand on broke. I held on, but the left latissimus dorsi, pulled mildly a month ago, pulled worse under the shock load. Didn't really notice it till the next day. It sidelined me for the next leg of the trip, an arduous hike and and easy climb to Mt. Starr King (South of Half Dome a few miles) in Yosemite. Trying to make lemonade out of lemons, I roamed about with my camera in various places along the Glacier Point road. As such, my Yosemite photo album will be updated, and interested biofreaks will be alerted, FWIW. It won't contain pictures of the two bears I saw, both moving too fast for me shoot them. But the macro shots of a grasshopper, very cooperative because it was in the grip of the morning chill, ought to be up soon. I'll post the link again when I'm done. Cheers, Tuck,