les of political combat, while their hero, President Reagan, smiled and appeared to stay above it all. The most we can say is that there must be in excess of two thousand colonized planets, in excess of five hundred billion people. It could be syringes and such, with Dec Krausmeyer's help. But if one of our three old friends die-we eat him.
My medical books had one odd effect. I didn't plan it that way; I just wanted Minerva to baby-sit for me. However, I think my chances of putting together a viable colony-of young people, not over a hundred years old, two hundred at most-without the aid of the Foundation, are fairly good. Suspended animation- What's new about that? We had that when I was a kid, hardly two hundred years old.
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