All I have to say on the world sheriff thing is that it is on the whole a rather sleepy town he is policing. The one big global problem now as Mandelson points out is energy, and connected to that climate change. (Poverty and dysfunctional governments is a bigger problem, but it is ultimately a local one.) We need a way to put a price tag on CO2, and the only way I see that happening is to get governments to agree on taxing it. Heavily, as in replacing income tax with it. That is really the only big thing now, and the USA will not do anything about it. So I think I'll concentrate on high altitude real estate. Cheers, Teemu Helsinki, Finland __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html