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To: Ilaine who wrote (20375)	3/1/2002 8:04:01 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Nice post, CB. I'm not eager to go back to metal type either. I did that growing up. When I was in high school, I worked for one of the local newspapers--set type and was THE sports department. Used to write a weekly column which, at the time, I gave it a column name I considered a clever play on my last name. And wrote play by play summaries of the local high school football games, as well as those opening and closing cheerleading comments. But I'm more than a little curious as to just what you thought this had to do with the "free trade" discussion. I'm one of those early tech adopters, the bleeding edge type, bought one of the first Macintoshes in 84, was an early Compuserve inhabitor, tried out AOL when it was Apple something or other, pushed hypertext in my university so much I got labeled for it. No buggy whips for me. But, and this is important to me, I don't hang out with the Adam Smith crowd. Smith was wrong about the hand of God (whose disappearance from the world predated the great horrors of the twentieth century). But it's one of the great shortcomings of the late part of the 20th century and the early parts of the 21st that we've taken that trip back in time. John