41.   Business Week magazine reports that the gap between CEOs and workers has widened dramatically in recent decades.

42.   But Americans, overworked and underinvolved in any other activity besides channel surfing, have over recent decades enshrined Dilbert, not Bacchus, as their holiday role model.

43.   But before commercial encaustic became available in recent decades, artists had to make their own.

44.   But California and Texas are growing much faster than New York, whose only possible presidential contender in recent decades was the brilliant, Hamlet-like Mario Cuomo.

45.   But despite some dramatic gains in recent decades, Mexican-Americans remain the most poorly educated ethnic group in the United States.

46.   But in recent decades, all recruits have been routinely immunized and the disease has become rare in this population.

47.   But in recent decades, Costa Rica has become more urbanized.

48.   But in recent decades, the number and intensity of El Ninos has increased while La Ninas have declined.

49.   But in Colombia, most journalists killed in recent decades had run afoul of drug smugglers, leftist guerrillas or right-wing henchmen.

50.   But it does so with only a passing look at the civil unrest of recent decades.