Why don’t they tell us the GNP anymore? When I was a kid, they always told us about GNP. We’d stand next to our dioramas (or is it diorami?) of SovietCollective Farms, or Asian rice paddies, and Mrs. Swallow (yes, actual name) would tell us about the GNP of the Soviet Union was such and such, or the GNP per person of whatever country we happened to be focusing on in Social Studies that week was higher than that of the social studies unit from last week...
