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From: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: net.misc,net.bio
Subject: Re: World population benchmark
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Date: Mon, 14-Jul-86 00:31:03 EDT
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Keywords: Billions and billions, population, United Nations
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In article <599@bcsaic.UUCP> michaelm@bcsaic.UUCP (michael maxwell) writes:
>it makes me wonder why there aren't more people like
>Plato, Galileo, Michaelangelo, Bach, Einstein.  (Or, heaven help us, 
>more like Genghis Khan, Hitler, Alexander, Attila the Hun, etc.)  

I nominate Donald Knuth of Stanford. Watson and Crick (sp?) who
discovered the structure of DNA.  I don't know of any current music or
art of lasting value, however.
-- 
 Why did VD become STDs?

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