Fal, thanks, I did slip a decimal place didn't I--actually three places. Thank you for that second computation and I'm sorry I I should have said "present" not "foregoing" so if it's no trouble could you repeat the calculation based on current growth rate, which is, contraceptives notwithstanding, much, much higher

Pook: Thank you also for that pertinent observation, which FAl also pointed out. Of course the figure is impossible to attain but it bolsters my contention as well as yours that we ought to be doing something before it's too late

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