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To: Rolla Coasta who wrote (28536)	1/28/2008 3:39:14 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 217678

That is not at all my experience: <Adding true value to the system gets true respect from society. > On the contrary, when I review the New Zealand honours lists each year, it looks to me that the people who spend the value get the honours and those who create the value are ignored at best, or denigrated at worst. For example, engineers are very sparse in the honours lists, but all sorts of others are honoured. Scientists are considered odd-balls, though a year or so ago there was one honoured. Mqurice