Dear wow: belMarduk was kind enough to check me on a quote from DeLaRochefoucald: The refusal of praise is merely the desire to be praised twice. But I was just a lab technician hunting for parasite ova in a million stools, and then struggling to get acceptable pathology slides against the handicap of temperate zone paraffin in a tropical climate. The only explosion I saw was from ten miles away, when a shipload of oxygen and acetylene tanks blew up in the harbor. It was spectacular seeing tanks almost as big as a man flying through the air like rockets, propelled by the compressed gas. No hero I.