■"Discount Airlines Hit Latin America: As Travelers Flock to Region, Cheap Options Proliferate; Rio to Sao Paolo: $18," by Amy Chozick, Wall Street Journal, 8 June 2005, p. D1.

We've seen this already arise in India and increasingly in China, where airports were packed everywhere we traveled last yearóand I mean every damn seat!

Now we see the article on the New Core states in Latin America.

When you have the context, the newspaper seems less the daily revelation and more the daily confirmation.

Hey, it ain't rocket science.