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To: Kumar Nathan who wrote (10205)	11/1/1997 1:49:00 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

Penguin behavior. Groups of hungry penguins will stand on the edge of an ice flow, wondering whether it's safe to jump in and get some fish. Noone wants to be the first to jump in, because there might be sharks down there. You can't tell for sure till someone jumps in and doesn't get eaten. So they all stand there, nervously shifting from flipper to flipper, staring at the murky water and pecking irritably at their neighbors. Eventually someone gets hungry enough, or maybe gets pushed from behind, and splashes in. Everyone perks up and watches him. If he comes up with a fish in his mouth, everyone else starts pushing and shoving to be the second one in. Very quickly they are all happily fishing. Until the sharks show up. There were a lot of penguins trading stocks this week. Tuesday, around 11 a.m., I heard the splash as the first one jumped in.