ABSTRACT

However, a guidebook is no substitute to having lived in another placealthough I can tell you about some of the best foods to try and buildings to visit, these will necessarily only be the highlights. Furthermore, as visitors we’ll have to cover some things quite supercially-we can learn enough words to say yes, no, please, and thank you, but we’ll never master the language. Maybe aer reading the guidebook, some intrepid

readers will decide to take a break from the familiar territory of molecular biology for a while and spend a few years in the land of computers and statistics.