I have a comment about gender vs gender-neutral names (which I've made before on another list. There have been some studies which indicate that students tend to recall information better when the information is presented using gender terms consistent with the reader's or listener's own gender. That is, male students recalled information better when they read "his" & female students recalled information better when they read "her" in the text. When you think aboutit, there are some very interesting implications to these studies. Peace. Jan Wilson, g1824303 at nmsuvm1.nmsu.edu