No, I am no going to talk politics .. too risky these days ;-) At MathFest 2008, geometers announced that they'd found a more efficient way to wrap spherical chocolates, helping to alleviate global warming and the resulting chocolate-melting problem. This shows how important Science is for Society, if you would have ever have doubts about it ... http://www.sciencemag.org/content/current/news-summaries.dtl -- Pierre ROUZE ¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨ BioInformatics Team Leader Department of Plant Systems Biology Ghent University, Technologie park 927, B-9052 GENT BELGIUM Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology VIB Tel :32.933 13694 Cell.Phone : 32.476 638 304 Fax :32.933 13809 pierre.rouze@psb.ugent.be http://www.psb.ugent.be/bioinformatics ¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨ prediction is very difficult, especially about the future Niels Bohr