Now he and Hochberg, a former IBM computer scientist who teaches Spanish and French at a magnet high school in Yonkers, find their collection has reached a point where it pays for its own expansion.

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He's a scholar of Mid-East Studies who teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.

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So task force chair Dale Brill, who teaches marketing at Florida State, said he and the others started asking a simple question: what creates value?

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As a result of the controversy, "He backed away from the subject for a while, " said Bram, who teaches English at New York University.

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"Everyone understand that guy's age, but many look at a certain guy and think he's the exception, " says David Berri, a sports economist who teaches at Southern Utah University.

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"It is a messy inquiry, but that's the nature of this area of the law, " said Leahey, who said he took the case because he is a graduate of Brooklyn College, where Seidemann teaches.

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Mr Hughes, who teaches deaf pupils at St Roch's Secondary School in Glasgow, said the support he had received had played a "huge part" in completing his voyage.

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