This is a bit off-topic, and I apologize, in advance, to anyone who takes umbrage with this message. Please feel free to hit your "DELETE" button, now. If all the mail lists grow somber and quiet, in the face of highly publicized tragedies, such as this latest one of JFK, Jr., might the web be a barometer, of sorts, of our worldwide collective empathy? It unites us in our stunned grief, and reflects the horror we all feel, that such a thing could happen, yet again. Individually, and collectively, we understand that we are each touched, and diminished, in some small way, by this loss. The web helps us to enunciate what we feel. Julie Hesson <genpub@iolinc.net>