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 NB> Even before our time, there was the occasional woman engineer... but

There of course was Grace Hopper, and long before her
that Lady Something whose ideas were taken by that Cabbage
or whatever his name was (my mind is particularly mushful
today).

 NB> they were REALLY bucking the tide back then... RIT's school of

And a lot of the nitty-gritty codebusting work back in
WWII was done by women, but they didn't have degrees,
having more recently being stenos or telephone operators,
and they sank back into oblivion when their job was done,
sort of like worker bees of every sort I suppose.

 NB> engineering is named for one such intrepid woman, Kate Gleason... :)

Heard the name, can't quite place her. Refresh?

 ML> I feel particularly obsolete today. Can't think for
 ML> skittles. Of course, I went to bed at 4:16 and woke
 ML> myself up coughing ... think I swallowed wrong in my
 ML> sleep, but it could be the allergies ... started reading
 ML> the pooch at 6:40-something. It's an hour later now and
 ML> I am like dead but too hopped up to go back to sleep.
 NB> Must be something in the air or something... I had a bad reflux
 NB> incident Thursday night, that I'm still coughing up gunk from out of my
 NB> lungs... so far no fever, and the color of the gunk looks better now,
 NB> so maybe I managed to miss that part of the bullet, anyway...
 
Yowk - I'm told that I should fear pneumonia, having had
it several times, always but one of the walking variety.
Then they found lesions suggestive of ancient TB scars in
my lungs, but the recent tests show them to have disappeared
(or possibly have been an artifact or misreading of previous
X-rays).

---------- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.04

      Title: Mixed Vegetable Salad Sweet and Sour
 Categories: Salads
      Yield: 3 servings

    175 g  Red cabbage, shredded
     75 g  French beans, cooked
    175 g  Jerusalem artichokes
           -- peeled, cooked and diced
     75 g  Canned sweetcorn; drained

--------------------------SWEET AND SOUR DRESSING--------------------------
      1    Garlic clove
    1/2 sm Onion; finely sliced
      2 tb Honey
      3 tb Tarragon vinegar
      2 tb Lemon juice
      1 ts Mustard
      1 ts Snipped chives
      1 ts Snipped dill
      1 ts Parsley; finely chopped
    150 ml Vegetable oil
           Salt; to taste

           Serves 3-4

  To prepare the dressing, put the garlic, onion, honey and vinegar into
  the blender. Add the lemon juice and mustard, and salt to taste. With
  the blade working, add the oil in a thin stream and blend the dressing
  until it thickens. Put it into a jar and leave it to stand overnight for
  the flavours to amalgamate. Strain the dressing into a jug, and stir in
  the chives, dill and parsley.

  Arrange the shredded cabbage in the centre of a serving-platter and toss
  it in half of the dressing. Arrange the French beans, artichokes and
  corn decoratively around the cabbage. Serve the remaining dressing in a
  sauce boat.

  Copyright Rosamond Richardson 1996

  Meal-Master format courtesy of Karen Mintzias

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