Statistics are like bikinis.
What they reveal is suggestive. The many numbers we watch as indicators in employment are very much that way. And they have been off the charts lately. U.S. News and World Report says that 17 million workers quit old jobs to take new jobs in 1999. The U.S. Department of Labor says that more than 18 million jobs will be created by 2006 and that computers will be largely responsible for that growth.