Non-critical Analysis of Modern Kerosene Movement

• In its urge to conquer the world, Kero-community easily won the battle with the universities of the West. Even most famous and prestigious of them reluctantly accepted Kerosinschiks in their classrooms, labs and offices (and even tolerate them till now (-: ). Judge yourself: Harvard and Yale, Princeton and Columbia, NYU and Berkeley, Uni- versity of Chicago and Boston University, CalTech and Technion, Tel-Aviv University and Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Weizmann Institute and Sorbonne, University of Sydney and ... Second Moscow Medical Institute! (If you think that this is the full list, c'mon, I've just took the cream, I haven't even touched Ohio State and Wash- ington University of St. Louis (-: ). So far, nobody reported Kerosinschiks in Oxford and Cambridge, but as we are delegating our glorious editor-in-chief to University of Bristol, it's shouldn't be that far from there. So, the toughest place for a Kerosinschik to get into remains Moscow State University.
• As the programming part of Kero-community doesn't yield to the scientific one in num- ber, it was quite interesting to observe the vivid correlation between the geographical region and the level of appreciation Kerosinka alumni gained from major software publishing houses. Really, most of software giants of American West were delinquently negligent to let Kerosinschiks to penetrate into their staff. Again, just the cream: Microsoft [The Greatest], Borland [The Die-Harder], Informix, and even the Western branches of the Eastern giants, like Xerox. On the contrary, on their own territory the Eastern ones are much more cautious, and we haven't heard about Kerosinschiks in IBM, DEC and their cohort (though, someone may note that no smart Kerosin- schik would like to be on a leaking ship). Thus, our programming Kero-brethren of American East mostly concentrated in hi-tech companies (mid- and small-sized) and financial institutions.
• Interesting and not seen before diversification of current occupation of Kerosinschiks is taking place. Among usual "student of mathematics/computer science", "researcher", "programmer", "software engineer", you will occasionally find something unexpected: like medical student, for example, and at least one Kerosinschik described the current occupation as millionair (the Editorial staff is all curious in what currency and we sincerely wish that not in leaky Russian roubles).
• Do you know where on the globe is the most dynamic (in demographic sense) Kero- community? You may be surprised, but in Australia. In the two last years since the first Kerosinka Yellow Pages surfaced, the number of Kerosinka alumni in Australia more than doubled (even close to tripled), and there are rumors that others are following the lead and are getting ready to immigrate (or already migrate?) from the Holy Land to the Land of Kangaroos.

... and goes into cyberspace

At first, I'd like to note that without modern magic of e-mail we wouldn't be able to prepare this edition. All communications between our editors were done solely via electronic media. Plus, being given enormous task of collecting information about American part of Kerosinka alumni in a really short term, the only tactic I could choose was e-mail broadcast of a request to participate. Honestly, I was overwhelmed by the response that exceeded my expectations at least twice. Thank you all who overcome the usual "laziness simplisitat" and promptly responded to the call.