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Being a professor is still important enough to merit admiration. So why doesn't it merit a good salary?

During a Democratic presidential debate earlier this year, the moderator, Charles Gibson of ABC News, inadvertently brought down the house when he suggested that a two-professor family might generate an annual income...

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