In a message dated 11/27/2001 5:25:17 PM, [log in to unmask] writes: << I feel like someone marooned on a desert island watching the plane or ship in the distance fly or sail away. >> Hello Rayilyn, A happier image is of you, or me, or any of us, jumping on that plane or ship, bound for Britain or Australia or another place where stem cell research has proceeded without impediment and a breakthrough has occurred. Maybe in your lifetime and mine, maybe not...but something dramatically wonderful will happen sooner or later, if not in the U.S. then elsewhere. So let's fantasize a listcruise, with all of us heading off to get brand new brain cells and then returning via warm southern seas, dancing the night away under starry skies, our keyboards idle while our feet fly. Who knows? We can dream. Kathleen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn