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To: Lane3 who wrote (88638)	11/30/2004 10:03:13 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793731

Universities are ivory towers. You don't have to produce anything tangible. Academics don't have a give and take relationship with business folks and ordinary folks. That is the whole point isn't it - to put people in an ivory tower so that they are not contaminated by greed, fear, and other human impediments in order to think things through and to advance knowledge and understanding? Of course nothing is ever perfect, but that is the model. We, the consumers (the ones that want an edge in life), go to the ivory tower and try to apply that knowledge and understanding. It seems to be silly to reject their findings because it does not fit in with our preconceived and prefered thought processes.