Thank you all so much. Hamwild,hopefully I have managed to eliminate the emoticons following your advice, I am a real dufus when it comes to using computers; didn't even occur to me that this was an option. JBarstool,we think alike. In any case, the whole premise of that study is pretty repellent to me; I don't feel that those ugly faces and whatnot should represent my emotions and thoughts. NMoasis,of course you are right that the fault lies with the publisher who let these two pieces be put into the newsletter. But there was a place for comments on the article, and so I commented.
