Hey Chris,

Copying-and-pasting more than half of an article is pushing it too far beyond the doctrine of "fair use" of copyrighted material. Whenever a copyright-holder complains to me--and they do, from time to time--I have no choice but to delete the offending material plus, necessarily, any ensuing discussion. Reuters hasn't complained--yet--but I want to head off the problem. Please use a little restraint when "quoting" material written by others.

Also, please use the <BLOCKQUOTE> tags to flag the material as a quotation. I had to compare your post against the original Reuters article to discover that you had written nothing of your own in that post. It compounds the offense if a casual reader might mistake the words as yours.

Thanks for your cooperation.