Friday, November 4, 2005, 4:44:12 PM, Andy Amago wrote: AA> Yes, but if the media were hyping it, they'd know. The media here says AA> next to nothing about it. Lou Dobbs covers it, but that's about it, http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/news/news-birdflu.html http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/international/international-birdflu-europe-exercise.html http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/news/news-birdflu-usa.html http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/international/international-birdflu.html http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/CNET_2100-11395_3-5929514.html http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/politics/AP-Congress-Budget.html http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Logan-Quarantine.html etc. etc. (I decided not to list all the NYT November 3 stories and not to go back further than that date) http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/Search?keywords=bird+flu&x=11&y=13&tab=article_tab page 1 of 22 hits http://search.edition.cnn.com/pages/search/basic.jsp?Coll=cnn_xml&QuerySubmit=true&query=&Page=1&source=edition&invocationType=search%2Ftop&sites=edition&QueryText=avian+flu 182 hits http://search.boston.com/index.jsp?title=c&summary=c&byline=c&body=c&source=All&collection=month&queryStr=avian%20flu Boston Globe last 30 days -- didn't count the hits http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nypost/results.html?QryTxt=avian+flu&x=13&y=9 21 hits other newspapers you can check on here: http://www.refdesk.com/paper.html#natnews AA> and AA> nobody watches Lou Dobbs anyway. They're even taking off the rerun at AA> 11:00. So, you're wrong, it isn't media/government generated. Did you AA> even know about all the chickens being killed in Asia? Yes. It's in our media as well as yours -- Judy Evans, Cardiff, UK mailto:judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html