STATE OF THE EDITOR

The last issue was written under great difficulties. Little did I know that right afterwards I would have to be admitted to hospital for yet another operation, kidney, blocked ureter, disgusting things. More weight loss, blood loss, now I can lift a Kleenex, but not much more. An internist and a urologist separately told me I was dying of cancer, but I have reason to hope that they may be wrong.

However, there was not a whiff of a chance in this past month, the most horrible of my life, in following the news, let alone clipping items for this issue. So I will make a virtue of necessity and celebrate the last issue under my editorship by writing about science, but not about energy. I am writing this on the loafer's schedule: a paragraph or two of writing, 2 hours of recuperation stupor. Perhaps I can make it in time even though I will not be able to print it myself. But then I had a blood pressure collapse, back to the hospital More time lost more strength lost. Please bear with me.