In a message dated 10/01/1999 6:16:37 PM Pacific Daylight Time, bob@sky.net writes: << Thursday evening, the winner of the Ig-Nobel prize in Biology was Paul Bosland of The Chile Pepper Institute, at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, for breeding a spiceless jalapeno chile pepper. >> And what would be the use of it? If you don't want a spicy jalapeno, just use grass. Marilyn