If I'd like to study your profile, I'll send you a friend request with full details of what we're doing, and you can 'accept' and opt in, or press 'ignore' and I won't be offended.

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This is one of the things I like about the study so far.

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Considering many of the public personalities we venerate, these findings make a lot of sense, though I would like to see a follow on study that examines observer perceptions when the rude rule breakers are caught.

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Finally, while not detracting from the important contributions of the people acknowledged in Mr Sachs's footnote, I would like to point out that many others contributed to the Bank's study.

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After five years of study in that case, I gained invaluable information from world class experts, like Dr. Joyce Poole from Norway (the foremost elephant researcher in the world), Dr. Phil Ensley, a top veterinarian with specialized training regarding elephants, Dr. Jenny Conrad, a groundbreaking wildlife veterinarian, Mr. Will Travers, CEO of the Born Free Foundation in London, an extremely knowledgeable conservationist, and Pat Derby and Ed Stewart, founders of the PAWS Sanctuary in Northern California.

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I've become a case-study in VC fossilization, a Luddite one-liner, like Ken Olsen and the PC.

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