Many AP-S members are involved in the analysis and design of C <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">3</sup> systems. Now they may have to watch out for E <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">3</sup> ! This new (?) acronym, which stands for Electromagnetic Environmental Effects, appears on the cover of the 1989 annual issue of ITEM Update, a supplement to the International Journal of EMC (published by ROBAR industries). It is interesting that whereas electrical engineers have been busy reducing their entire professional vocabulary to a string of acronyms (the centennial edition of the IEEE Standard Diruonary of Electrical and Electronics Terms lists no fewer than 15,000), the medical profession has managed to concoct the supposedly longest word in the language -- pneumonoultranicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. Cited in The Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989, list price $2,500), the word refers to a particular lung disease [Editor's note: it also plays h.avoc with electronic publishing hyphenation algonthms! WRS]