Take a look at this news bit on an experiment in defining "lucky" and "unlucky" people: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3335275.stm This is also useful to us as activists because a large segment of the population still feels helplessly "unlucky" in the face of modern trials and underestimates (thanks to 'feel-good' superfice) the importance of attitude, and such articles (along with Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's 1991 study, *Flow*) help us to empower them to work towards the greater good. yours, W. Everett Chesnut ===== ~ solvitur ambulando ~ "The problem is solved in the walking." [-- St. Augustine] * * "Not all who wander are lost." [-- J.R.R. Tolkien] * * . . I'm on an unnamed walkabout . . . . with no whither nor whence __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus