Bme, I am glad you did not mention E8 or E8xE8 or schrodinger's equation , but just stopped on on Euclidean geometry to compare beauty contest with academia. Well, the question about you quatification of beauty is pretty complex or rather is a subjective reference. With your principle everyone is beautiful and can not be compared. So, apparently you are inferring that beauty contests selection is a fools game, ha ha ha. Dude, the catwalk is a requirement. So why bother about it? Or, do you want to suggest your way of choosing beauty queens? Or you suggest them to solve human genome decoding problem? I apologize but I fail to understand "I have not seen a single Miss Nepal cross the corridors of Nepali airlines cabin,let alone them impacting the lives of Nepalese people". You mean they are short --- :-)? Helloooo Ashu, Thanks for the compliment. I am glad to know that you are gettiing more than enough WAH WAH in your work. That is awesome dude. Thanks for forwarding your article. May be it is clear as crystal to everyone but I found that article a kind of mumbo jumbo. The reason: it failed to capitalize the western proverb in nepali context. It is like drinking diet coke with 1000 caloried Chicken Ciabatta to cut calorie in meal. Yes, there is no doubt, the younger generation is much smarter than before. They can google everything so quick. The beauty queens are the same. KUDOs again for being Ashu (continuous -- jharana) in Sajha since 2000 (reference: your own statement). Kiran.