Chop Chop!

Apparently some folks down in Chile have decided that it will be in their future best interest to learn Chinese. This is the tip of the tip of the spear, folks. Remember who were the adversaries in the original Buck Rogers stories? A generation or two after that--and forty-plus years ago--Tom Lehrer joked: "In German, oder English, I know how to count down; und I'm learnink Chinese," says Wernher von Braun.

Gulp!