TO TAKE AN INTEREST in the affairs of others is entirelynatural; so natural, in fact, that even a cat, lying cat-napping ontop of a wall, will watch with half an eye the people walking bybelow. But between such curiosity, which is permissible, andnosiness, which is not, there lies a dividing line that some people simply miss---even if it is a line that is painted red andmarked by the very clearest of warning signs.