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Subject: [Leica] News Release (OT/humour)
From: Gary Elshaw <gary.elshaw@vuw.ac.nz>
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 03:59:18 +1200

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
  /|\
Gary Elshaw
Post-Grad Film Student
Victoria University
New Zealand
http://elshaw.tripod.com/
http://elshaw.tripod.com/photointro.html