With all the news about the difficult situation in Egypt, I've discovered how little I know about world cultures and geography! The CIA.gov Web site has a page called World Fact Book that with maps and descriptions of the world's countries. Outside of North America I am definitely geographically challenged!

Also... Mooshi mentioned being on vacation in the Maldives Islands -- guess who had no idea where the Maldives Islands are located? That would be me. But I know now (thanks, Google). I don't guess I'll ever visit the Maldives in my life but from the pictures I saw on the Web, it looks like a beautiful place. I'll have to start looking at the world news and the travel sections of the Sunday paper to get a better handle on places. When they say "think global" maybe this is what they mean.