At 7:18 PM 9/12/96, Gregg Cooke wrote: ....

I'm gonna stick my neck out here and ask a naive question: where can I find "the NAS report" mentioned in this thread? Note that I'm new to this list (2 days) so please be kind if this paper is extremely well known (it's not known to me but it sounds like something I need to read).

-Gregg

I think that they meant the NRC (National Research Council) report. It is at: <http://pwp.usa.pipeline.com/~jya/nrcindex.htm>.