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From: Alan <DAVIDSON@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Discussion of job market for scientists today on NPR's "Talk
 of the         Nation"
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I think this discussion (or this show) is in response to a crusade of sorts
by Alan Hale (the co-discoverer of the Hale-Bopp Comet, not the guy who
played the skipper on Gilligan's Island) to question the ethical worth of
recruiting tons of folks for graduate study in the sciences.  I got a letter
of his from another list, and I forward it in the next 30 minutes or so.