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To: Gary Wisdom who wrote (34672)	11/6/1997 11:18:00 AM
From: John Erdtmann	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

To all: Syquest has a new ad for its SparQ drive in this weeks Business Week magazine, page 137. The headline reads "LIGHT MY FIRE". It shows a picture of a lady's eyes looking from behind a SparQ disk. Any comments? John

To: Gary Wisdom who wrote (34672)	11/6/1997 11:47:00 AM
From: Teddy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

Flying pigs prepare for landing HANOI (Reuters) - A jumbo jet with 665 breeding pigs on board will fly into Vietnam from Britain on Friday on a mission to go forth and multiply. The British embassy and the Pig Improvement Company Vietnam said in a joint statement that the 600 females and 65 males would be transported to the U.K.-based firm's farm in Ninh Binh province, south of Hanoi. Among those on hand at Hanoi's Noi Bai airport to meet the pigs will be British ambassador David Fall and officials from Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. PIC Vietnam, a wholly owned company specialising in pig genetics, will invest $2.2 million to breed and sell breeding stock to Vietnamese farmers. The statement said the project will bring an estimated saving of $6.5 million for Vietnam's pig industry through bigger litter sizes, better food conversion, faster growth rates, increased lean percentage, better meat quality and import substitution. But a doubting Vietnamese farmer would never have said "...and pigs might fly." The equivalent phrase in Vietnamese is "bao gio trach de ngon da" -- which means when the eel lays eggs in the banyan tree.