An article in the NY Times predicting, not without glee, the " demise and fall" of Europe - that one day interpretation of the Kuran, what horrible decadence, might be taught in European schools. There is a reference to Gibbon, too. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/04/magazine/04WWLN.html?pagewanted=all&position= O.K. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html