[Greenbuilding] human scale

[Alan Abrams]

http://books.google.com/books?id=SvDB9hccm9kC&pg=PA204&lpg=PA204&dq=gargantu
a+and+pantagruel+country+mile&source=web&ots=qgUo3cHPSW&sig=e9KeSLz64bkrEIj8
yATDnj1cuq0

veering even farther off course, the link above takes the venturous reader
to Rabelais' explanation of why the mile is shorter in France than in its
neighboring kingdoms.  I cannot repeat the details here in this family
oriented listserve.

-AA