Dateline Washington DC: In an attempt to stem the tide of bird flu,

And...

Just to prove there is a brain here somewhere...

From Phillip M Harter, MD, Stanford University, School of

Medicine:

"If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of

precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios

remaining the same, here's what you would have:

57 Asians

21 Europeans

14 from the Western Hemisphere (both north and south)

8 Africans

52 would be female

48 would be male

70 would be non-white

30 would be white

70 would be non-Christian

30 would be Christian

89 would be heterosexual

11 would be homosexual

6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth, and

all 6 would be from the United States.

80 would live in substandard housing

70 would be unable to read

50 would suffer from malnutrition

1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth

1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education

1 would own a computer."