CHANCE OF A LIFETIME

ET CETERA

THE 60 MINUTES/VANITY FAIR POLL

catalogue of missed opportunities for Americans this month, or so it says here—missed opportunities both acknowledged and unacknowledged. How we wish we could have been part of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon (or at least have joined Lewis and Clark on their joi the country to the Pacific). Some of these missed op] didn't even occur to us as they presented themselve then, suddenly, were gone. An appalling 92 percent

Americans admit that they have never, ever pretended to be Canadian when traveling abroad—thus losing out on a chance to try on for size that special frisson that is a Canadian's birthright. (Admittedly, the percentage of faux Canadians might have been higher if we had said "when traveling to Lebanon, Egypt, or Iran.")

Finally, and almost as staggering, there is evidence that a majority of Americans miss the opportunity for a real vacation because they're checking their work e-mail instead.

@vf.COm SEE THE COMPLETE POLL RESULTS.

This poll was conducted at the CBS News interviewing facility among a random sample of976 adults nationwide, interviewed by telephone May 31-June 3, 2012. Due to rounding, some percentages may not add up to exactly 100 percent.