Doug, thanks for sharing Michael Jordan--not the star athlete, but the
wheeler-dealer--with us.

I imagine we could start a separate list server at any time about overpaid
celebrities. Almost anyone I talk to has a pretty strong feeling of
resentment about this fact of our society. What's really scary is if you
graph these salaries over time, you'd find that the few hundred Michael
Jordans and Jim Carreys (was it $20 million or $40 million he got paid for
his last movie?) and Bill Gateses of tomorrow will be pulling in well over
half of the GNP, while the remaining millions of us will have to divide up
what's left. But people get what they want, right? How many people are
boycotting the Chicago Bulls or The Cable Guy or Microsoft Word?

And I'll bet none of them can tell the difference between a sandpiper and a
plover!

And (sob) Michael just made another $500 while I was writing this!

Dennis Paulson, Director phone 206-756-3798
Slater Museum of Natural History fax 206-756-3352
University of Puget Sound e-mail dpaulson at ups.edu
Tacoma, WA 98416