By Business a.m.

THERE are prizes and then there are prizes. New Scientist is offering one lucky reader the chance to be frozen.

When the winner is pronounced legally dead, he or she will be cryogenically cooled to a temperature where physical decay of the body stops.

The person will then be suspended in liquid nitrogen and left there until medical technology is able to heal and revive them.

Alun Anderson, the magazine's editor-in-chief, said: "We realise cryonic preservation is not for everyone, either because people may not believe it could work or they may be opposed to it on religious grounds."

Not to mention weirdness grounds.

• ON to a more sensible form of prizegiving. Today's winner in our 30 Days Hath September competition is Rosanne Holburn, of Craneware, who wins a Dewars hamper full of scotch and truffles.

She correctly stated that the Aberfeldy Distillery was established in 1898.

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Sources: BUSINESS A.M. 19/09/2002