I was under the impression that having an international focus had less to do with what we look at than with how we look at it. If I find that property values drop in a specific city in Texas at a specific time I can spend a lifetime looking for the local reason and never decipher one. The true fact of the matter is that there was a world wide depression that led to the reduction in these values and created a change in the daily life of very local individuals. No place is totally isolated from the world at large, but archeologists have in the past analyzed them as if they were. It's just time to be aware of the global village and it's effects on our little corner of it. Diane Dismukes