to college professors and teachers, who regularly give straight A students the benefit of the doubt and those of us with B and C's would have to perform a miracle to get an A. But whenever there are humans involved, the judging is subjective.

And then there are elections. There's no doubt that well over half of American voters know that U.S. presidential candidate Al Gore got the most votes and if all the Florida votes had been recounted, he would have won the Electoral College vote and become president. But the Supreme Court stepped in and that was that. George W. became president. So much for the best and brightest winning elections. ( And please don't mention John Kennedy's election in 1960. The electoral vote wasn't even closeinto a mating component. The female block portion has an annular collar surrounding the first aperture of the female block portion and cooperating with the annular shoulder formed by the male block portion. The first aperture of the male block portion and the first aperture of the female block portion are substantially concentrically aligned.
As further described in Schroeder et al., a seal structure is disposed radially inward from the axially extending lip of the male block portion and between the male block portion and the female block portion. The seal structure includes a first seal portion produced from a plastically deformable (e.g., soft) metal or plastic material, and has a free edge. The first seal portion surrounds the first aperture of the male block portion and the first