JC> I suspect that the "joy of learning" has been pretty much abandoned by
  > the "mainstream culture". I am simply amazed at the number of people 
here
  > I work(ed) that given the company benefit of paying for furthering their
  > education had some excuse as to why they couldn't do it.
Yep!  And I think that's a shame.  I understand the average person reads
fewer than one book a year these days.
                        Sondra
-*-
 þ SLMR 2.1a þ 90% of the time I'm right; why worry about the other 3%?
--- Opus-CBCS 1.7x via O_QWKer 1.7 
---------------