Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 10:15:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Daniel Matthes <danny@math.brown.edu>
Subject: Topological Inquiry

I'm a visiting student at Brown U and I have a topological question, for
which nobody here has an answer. So my teacher Dev Sinha recommended to
forward this question to you, since you moderate this topology e-mail
list. Thanks in advance for any help!

                                Best, Danny.

QUESTION: Is there any easy (i.e. other than "Jesus How Confusing"
Whitehead's) proof of the fact that every Absolute Neighborhood Retract is
of the homotopy type of some locally finite polyhedron? Even a reference
for the compact case would be fine!