Maybe the biggest impediment to peace is that so many have so little to lose?

If we could shrink the Earth's population to a village of precisely 100 with all existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like this:

* There would be 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Western Hemisphere (North and South America), and 8 Africans.

* Seventy would be nonwhite, 30 white

* Seventy would be non-Christian, 30 Christian.

* Fifty percent of the entire world wealth would be in the hands of only 6 people, and all 6 would be citizens of the United States.

* Seventy would be unable to read and write.

* Fifty would suffer from some degree of malnutrition.

* Eighty would be homeless or in substandard housing.

* Only one would have a college education.

(the author is unknown but is hereby invited to fill this space on a regular basis... ed.)

9/24/98