Academic pursuits

This paper has been 5 years in the making from the time the research was conceived. From conception to parturition has been longer than an elephant. I don't know about whales. It was a rough delivery. Just after the study was done, I checked into the hospital with acute leukemia. My co-authors quickly went to work doing the analysis and submitting the first version of the MS in November 2009. Some of you might be surprised that it took until last night for the 6th revision to accepted. But those of you in academic pursuits won't be surprised.

Gil