I sent a letter to Target, and I started out very nicely acknowledging Target's well-deserved reputation as a wonderful community citizen -- in Houston Target and Target employees donate lots of money and time every October for the annual "Circle of Friends" picnic of the Down Syndrome Association of Texas. We're talking thousands of dollars every year. And in my little town of College Station, a local family teamed up with a local HMO to hold a blood drive to raise money for their daughter's expensive growth hormone treatments -- for every pint of blood donated, the HMO would credit the parents account with $25.00. Target volunteered their parking lot for the site of the blood donations, and when over 300 people turned up (including me) to wait for HOURS in the hot sun to donate blood, Target brought out food and sandwiches for all the people in line. I appealed to their wonderful reputation as "good guys" -- have not heard back from them. We shall see . . . . ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- Katherine A. Dettwyler, Ph.D. email: [log in to unmask] Anthropology Department phone: (409) 845-5256 Texas A&M University fax: (409) 845-4070 College Station, TX 77843-4352 http://www.prairienet.org/laleche/dettwyler.html