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From: jay@ncspm.ncsu.edu (Jay C. Smith)
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Subject: Re: Did Challenger happen?
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Date: 29 Aug 89 14:43:56 GMT
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Reply-To: jay@ncspm.ncsu.EDU (Jay C. Smith)
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Noticed you changed the distribution on the follow-up to "usa."

In article <17772@ut-emx.UUCP> mentat@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Robert Dorsett) 
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?
>
>Austria, Switzerland, Japan, the Netherlands, Yugoslavia, Israel, West
>Germany, Australia, Palestine (gov't in exile), etc.  

All countries with a very high degree of cultural single-mindedness and an
almost complete lack of diversity among their citizens when compared to the
US.  One can say that there is an "appearance" of being better-educated and
less shallow, but it certainly depends on one's frame of reference.  Literacy
rates may be one measure of these perceived qualities, but I can't think of 
how to measure the education involved in exposure to diversity.

>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.  

"Us?"  "We?"  Include me out, and stop reading USA Today!  :-)


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