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From: mentat@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Robert Dorsett)
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Subject: Re: Did Challenger happen?
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Date: 28 Aug 89 23:13:04 GMT
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In article <1803@ncspm.ncsu.edu> jay@ncspm.ncsu.EDU (Jay C. Smith) writes:
>In article <17643@ut-emx.UUCP> mentat@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Robert Dorsett) 
>writes:
>>I can name countries which don't have such services--but which do have what
>>appear to be better-educated people, less shallow people.  Gosh, what irony,
>>eh?
>
>Please name the countries.

Austria, Switzerland, Japan, the Netherlands, Yugoslavia, Israel, West
Germany, Australia, Palestine (gov't in exile), etc.  

There are, undoubtedly, more.  If you wanted a scientific sampling, we could 
look at various characteristics, such as education (up to 30% illiteracy rate 
in the United States, the worst of the Western powers, political involvement, 
economic output, etc.  Surveys show that 99% of the population can't name 
their representatives to Congress, the Secretary of State, Secretary of 
Defense, and other prominent figures.  A hell of a lot of us seem to think 
that Judge Wapner is a member of the US Supreme Court.  

We're running on fumes.  






Robert Dorsett 
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