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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (96778)	4/21/2009 7:58:31 PM
From: koan	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) of 116555

Let me tell you about academics. When I went into the store with my daughter (she is a scientist and environmentalist), she forgot to bring in her bag. So she refused a store bag and made me carry an arm load of tomatoes in my arms to the car. She would not even take a bag. My son in law and daughter care nothing of money. He is a research scientist and teachs physics for mony at a university in Portland. They watch little TV. He gets up an hour early to feed his two year old daughter and then either rides his bike or takes a bus to work. He does not drive his car. He works so hard at the university my daughter has to drqag him out. then if my daughter is ired of caring for the child he will watch her while my daughter goes to the movies. He almost played professional soccer and runs marathons. His father teaches statistics at Berkeley. They care nothing about money and anything less than the absolute truth is unacceptable to them. It is actually unimaginable! These traits are common in academia. In fact you can see those traites in Barak and Michelle Obama. They read books and plant gardens and engage in vigorous exercise. They wonder at how the world functions and they worry about the poor, downtrodden and the fate of the world. That is what most academics are like. I was also in politics for 30 years. There is too much nasty hardball for most intelligent academicians.

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