maggie coleman can't think of a topic that is the equivalent in importance to women as sports is to men. I think women would be more interested in sports if women's sports got more resources dedicated to their promotion. (Of course, more resources would go to women's sports if more women were interested; it's a vicious circle, or a virtuous one, depending on your perspective.) Over the last couple of decades, more and more resources have been dedicated to women's sports in the US (due to title 9, I believe). So we have a "natural experiment" which should (if my theory works) encourage women to become more interested in sports. Of course, women might become more interested in sports if they realized that a lot of male athletes are "hunks." I know nothing of either sports or hunks, so I'll stop. (Luckily, I'm in academia, where one's ability to employ sports metaphors is not correlated with advancement possibilities.) in pen-l solidarity, Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] Econ. Dept., Loyola Marymount Univ., 7900 Loyola Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90045-8410 USA 310/338-2948 (daytime, during workweek); FAX: 310/338-1950 "Thank god we finally had us a war it was what we'd been spending our tax dollars for; the rivers of gore we can wave the flag o'er sparking the stock market rally soaring as high as the casualty tally" -- Roy Zimmerman
