"The over fifty thousand people given permanent residency each year through the diversity visa lottery have no real qualifications other than being lucky" Mayb

"The over fifty thousand people given permanent residency each year through the diversity visa lottery have no real qualifications other than being lucky" Maybe someone read too much Ringworld ! :) : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teela_Brown http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teela_Brown "Her sole qualification was that she was descended from "lucky" ancestors, six generations of whom were born as a result of winning Earth's Birthright Lottery. The Puppeteer saw this as a kind of artificial selection, tending to breed for a psionic power of good luck."