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John -

Hope you & Jeanette had good holidays.  Did the newspaper article say where
Parth's article was published?  I would be interested in knowing.

Betty Jean., The Tall One

  At 09:16 AM 1/4/00 -0500, you wrote:
>This morning's local paper, which serves an area of about 300,000 and is
>not known for cosmopolitan sagacity -- nor coverage of conchology --
>devotes three inches to the fact that Manfred Parth, German researcher and
>tennis fan, has named a snail after tennis great Boris Becker: Bufonaria
>borisbeckeri.
>
>...researchers in Bonn hope the idea will start a money-making trend...
>
>John Wolff
>2640 Breezewood Dr.
>Lancaster, PA 17601, U.S.A.

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