Cindy Fuller > wrote:
>Physics has fallen on hard times. Physicists have to find new avenues
>for their research. My former roommate studied the theory of cracks in
>metals for her PhD research. Sounds like she missed her true calling by
>not applying it to biscuits.

When I went to the University of Maryland studying EE one
of my good friends who was a Chem major was working up
the road at the USDA.

One of her jobs was to test samples of flour sent in from
various mills around the nation.

To test the flour, they baked cookies.

She had big, paper-wrapped bundles of cookies with her
every day she came to school after going to work, courtesy
of the American flour industry and the Federal Government.

--Blair
"Waste food. Starving students
and future engineers. Sounds
like a winning platform to me."