<<Earlier this year, the dazed crew of a Japanese fishing vessel was
     plucked out of the Sea of Japan clinging to the wreckage of their
     sunken ship.

     Their rescue, however, was followed by immediate imprisonment once
     authorities questioned the sailors on their ship's loss.  To a man
     they claimed that a cow, falling out of the clear blue sky, had struck
     the fishing vessel amidship, shattering its hull and sinking the
     vessel within minutes.

     They remained in prison for several weeks, until the Russian Air Force
     reluctantly informed Japanese authoirities that the crew of one of its
     cargo planes had apparently stolen a cow wandering at the edge of a
     Siberian airfield, forced the cow into the plane's hold and hastily
     taken off for home.

     Unprepared for live cargo, the Russian crew was ill-equipped to manage
     a now rampaging cow within its hold.  To save the aircraft and
     themselves, they shoved the animal out of the cargo hold as they
     crossed the Sea of Japan at an altitude of 30,000 feet.>>

     Bruce Conrad, Software Control Analyst
     Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Quincy, MA
     www.HarvardPilgrim.Org
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     "David and Nigel are like fire and ice, I'm in the middle, I'm
     lukewarm water." - Spinal Tap