hi trish you said: > Thanks Janet! I'm going to copy this one and pass it along > to my teaching colleagues! This may be a reason why our > students don't retain as much as we teach them! i am glad that you found it useful, trish! sometimes i wonder if the real miracle sometimes gets overlooked in the volume of all the news that's churning out these days the real miracle [imho] being our ability to map the living brain --- after centuries of theorizing about brain function from information based on autopsies, the effects of brain tumour and injuries, or extrapolations from tests on laboratory animals, new technologies have allowed us to learn more about the workings of our own minds in these past two decades than in all of previous human history - and we have just begun. gloria steinem --- with love from your syber sis janet [log in to unmask]