I've often thought that the focus on teams and not revealing the highest scoring individual in the Putnam examination is a public relations mistake for Mathematics (I think they only reveal the highest 5, and next 5, etc?). No newspaper is likely to pick up a story that reads "Harvard (or whoever) wins Putnam." By contrast the old Westinghouse Science winners got lots of press. Thane Plambeck 650 321 4884 office 650 323 4928 fax http://www.qxmail.com/home.htm