If you had purchased $1000.00 of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth 49.00. With Enron, you would have had $16.50 left of the original $1,000.00. With WorldCom, you would have had less than $5.00 left. But, if you had purchased $1,000.00 worth of Beer one year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the cans for the aluminum recycling REFUND, you would have had $214.00 Based on the above, current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle. It's called the 401-Keg Plan --Gene