Geography

They say that war is God's way of teaching Americans geography. And from a recent report in a US paper, it seems they need all the help they can get - which is not to say that they should be doing the war thing but that geography could be better included in their schools. Despite the wall-to-wall coverage of the damage from Hurricane Katrina, nearly one-third of young Americans recently polled couldn't locate Louisiana on a map and nearly half were unable to identify Mississippi. And 6 out of 10 couldn't find Iraq on a map.