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From: jcz@sas.UUCP (Carl Zeigler)
Newsgroups: net.misc,net.bio
Subject: Re: World population benchmark
Message-ID: <120@sas.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 16-Jul-86 14:47:15 EDT
Article-I.D.: sas.120
Posted: Wed Jul 16 14:47:15 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 18-Jul-86 03:30:39 EDT
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Keywords: Billions and billions, population, United Nations
Xref: watmath net.misc:9902 net.bio:611
Summary: Where are the great men???

In article <12305@amdcad.UUCP>, phil@amdcad.UUCP writes:
> 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.
> -- 

I would say that there are a porportionate number of 'great persons'
in the world today.  However, there are lots of them, so they don't
seem so great, and many of them are too weak from hunger to exhibit their
greatness.