Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/06/09
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Just some weekend humour about one of our favourite elements that
goes into some of our favourite elements :-) from
http://www.theonion.com
News In Brief
Lanthanum
Quits Periodic Table Of Elements
STOCKHOLM,
SWEDEN--The world of chemistry
was shaken
Monday by lanthanum's
announcement
that the popular 57th element
will quit
Transition Group IIIb of the periodic
table at the
end of the summer. "I have nothing
but good
things to say about my time with the
periodic
table," said the ductile, silvery-white
metal,
speaking from the site of its discovery by
Carl Gustav
Mosander in 1839. "Nevertheless, I
will be
stepping down after Labor Day to focus
on my own
earth-metal solo projects." Rumors
of a
longtime feud with molybdenum and the
constant
demands of lens manufacturing are
believed to
be behind the departure.
- --
"The difficulty now is that unexceptional adults believe the loss of
youthful dreaming is itself "growing up," as though adulthood were
the passive conclusion to a doomed activity and hope during
adolescence."
OO The Uses of Disorder
[_]<| Personal Identity and City Life -- Richard Sennett
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Gary Elshaw
Post-Grad Film Student
Victoria University
New Zealand
http://elshaw.tripod.com/
http://elshaw.tripod.com/photointro.html