In a message dated 4/18/02 11:27:09 AM, voicebox@DNAI.COM writes:

<< "Of all the things we tested," says Sherman, "only duct
tape failed.  It failed reliably and quite often catastrophically.">>

Oh yes!  Your tax dollars at work.  It took the resources of the Department
of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to discover something which
any fool who has ever used duct tape already knows.  Now, for the next topic:
why would a stellar example of the best this country has to offer (i.e., an
army general trained at no small effort nor cost) think that berets made in
China were going to be anything other than shit?

Rich