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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (135149)	6/2/2004 3:21:45 AM
From: Noel de Leon	Respond to of 281500

Maurice A physicist I know once said(in connection to the "race" to the moon) that if one invested 20 billion in better beds then one of the spin offs would be better bed springs. The point here is priorities. If one wants to include Hubble, the shuttle, and other good things that the US does in ODA then a cost benefit analysis can illustrate the problem. Is the cost benefit for Hubble greater than than the CB for curing Maleria? Is the cost benefit for the space shuttle greater than removal of trade barriers? The Copenhagen Consensus came to the conclusion that fighting AIDS/Maleria and removing trade barriers gives more bang for bucks than Kyoto. So why not use the same technique on Hubble, the CIA fact book, the shuttle, etc.?