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> -----Original Message----- > salaries that go with it. Large salaries are ALWAYS fashionable! > > There speaks one of Thatcher's children. Us sixties people grew up with a > different view. Big salaries were then deeply unfashionable. > No, Michael I am NOT one of Thatcher's children - I have never voted conservative in my life, was born in 1946 and was as much a 60s person as you! Big salaries certainly were unfashionable then and money never crossed my mind when I went into science in 1965. My decision, like others', was because of interest in the subject and idealism. However, talking now to non-scientific friends and my children's friends, as well as reading the press, suggest to me that people see it differently now. Perhaps people's perception of the down side of science is more influential now than idealism about its benefits. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%