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echo: bardroom
to: BARB JERNIGAN
from: SALLY SPRINGETT
date: 2003-02-23 12:34:00
subject: Re: Drawn and quoted

BJ> a state from which Fleming's discovery of penicillin arose
 BJ> (though I just learned it wasn't so much bad science but that
 BJ> he left the [petrie] dishes in the sink whilst he went off on
 BJ> vacation.....)

Lots of people got that far. My dad discovered penicillin in 1925.
When he showed his petrie dish to his biology professor the prof
said, "Yeah, that sometimes happens. Clean it out and try again."

The genius lies in really *seeing what's in front of you (and in
the follow through). ;)

--Sally

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