At 02:25 AM 06/01/2005, you wrote: >Only about 1/3rd of Americans >actually work (the population is 280m, but the workforce is only 90m Andreas does that figure for the population include children, students, the elderly, the infirm - etc ? - and of course homemakers who work without pay? Just curious about what all those people are doing ............. incidentally, as i write there is a snow covered vista out the window- but my neighbour is chipping ice off his windscreen and there is freezing rain rattling on my roof. But this is tropical compared to Regina which got down to minus 50 this week - can you imagine.. Ceri -- No attachments (even text) are allowed -- -- Type: text/plain ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html