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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman">Web: </font><a href="http://www.2rbetter.org/"><font face="Times New Roman">www.2rbetter.org</font></a><font face="Times New Roman"> April 2008.04.05<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><u><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">"AN OPEN LETTER TO </span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><u><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">AMERICA</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><u><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">'S STUDENTS"</span></u></b></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">By Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Columbia</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">University</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman">From The Reader's Digest Assoc., Inc. (October 1948 issue)</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman">I receive many letters from young people. Mostly they ask a question that could be put like this:</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>Shall I keep on with school? Or shall I plunge right off into "life"?</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>I try to answer these letters according to the circumstances of each case. But I sometimes feel that I would like to try to write a general answer to the whole general problem of "school" versus "life" in the minds of my correspondents. I think I would say:</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman">DEAR Jack or Margaret: You say you wonder if it is worth while for you to go on with high school. You particularly wonder if it is worth while to enter and finish college. The tedium of study, nose buried in books, seems a waste of time compared with a job and the stimulus of productive work. You say you hate to bother me with this "trifling" problem of yours.</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman">It is not a trifling problem at all. Your decision will affect your whole life; similar decisions by millions of other young Americans will affect the total life of our country. And I know how deeply it must worry you. It worried me and a lot of my schoolmates when I was your age.</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">In a small </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Kansas</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> town 40 years ago, a reasonably strong case could be put up in favor of leaving school early. Outside those few who could afford to pick a profession, most of us knew our lives would be spent on the farm, or in one of the local stores, or at the creamery or elevator.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman">We could be good farmers, good storekeepers, good mill hands, without much book learning. The quickest road to practical knowledge was to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">do</i>. That was the way we might have argued; and we would have been right if there were no more to successful living than plowing a straight furrow, wrapping a neat package, keeping a machine well oiled.</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman">Fortunately, we came of stock that set the school on the same plane as the home and church. The value of education, above and beyond the immediate return in dollars and cents, had been bred into us. Our families stinted themselves to keep us in school a while longer; and most of us worked, and worked hard, to prolong that while.</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman">Today the business of living is far more complex than it was in my boyhood. No one of us can hope to comprehend all its complexity in a lifetime of study. But each day profitably spent in school will help you understand better your personal relationship to country and world. If your generation fails to understand that the human individual is still the center of the universe and is still the sole reason for the existence of all man-made institutions, then complexity will become chaos.</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman">Consequently, I feel firmly that you should continue your schooling if you can right to the end of high school and right to the end of college. You say you are "not too good at books." But from books under the guidance of your teachers you can get a grasp on the thing that you most ought to understand before you go to work.</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman">It is expressed in a moving letter I got the other day from a young girl halfway through high school. She said that in her studies she seemed to be a failure all along the line, always trailing everyone else. But then she ended by saying: "I still think I could learn to be a good American."</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman">That's the vital point. School, of course, should train you in the two great basic tools of the mind: the use of words and the use of numbers. And school can properly give you a start toward the special skills you may need in the trade or business or profession you may plan to enter. But remember:</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">As soon as you enter it, you will be strongly tempted to fall into the rut and routine of it. You will be strongly tempted to become just a part of an occupation which is just one part of </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">America</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">. In school from books from teachers from fellow students you can get a view of the whole of </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">America</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">, how it started, how it grew, what it is, what it means. Each day will add breadth to your view and a sharper comprehension of your own role as an American.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman">I feel sure I am right when I tell you:</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">To develop fully your own character you must know your country's character.</i></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman">A plant partakes of the character of the soil in which it grows. You are a plant that is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">conscious</i>, that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">thinks</i>. You must study your soil which is your country in order that you may be able to draw its strength up into your own strength.</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">It will pay you to do so. You will understand your own problems better and solve them more easily, if you have studied </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">America</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">'s problems and done something toward their solution.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman">Never forget that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">self-interest and patriotism go together.</i> You have to look out for yourself, and you have to look out for your country. Self-interest and patriotism, rightly considered, are not contradictory ideas. They are partners.</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman">The very earth of our country is gradually getting lost to us. One third of the fertile top layer of our soil has already been washed away into rivers and the sea. This must be stopped, or some day our country will be too barren to yield us a living. That is one national problem crying for solution; it affects you directly and decisively.</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman">In our cities there are millions of people who have little between them and hunger except a daily job, which they may lose. They demand more "security." If they feel too insecure, their discontent might some day undermine <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">your</i> security, no matter how personally successful you might be in your own working life. That's another problem and there are innumerable others whose solution requires the thought and good will of every American.</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">I cannot put it to you too strongly or too often that it is to your <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">practical advantage </i>to learn </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">America</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">'s character and problems, in the broadest possible way, and to help to bring those problems to their solutions.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman">It is dangerous to assume that our country's welfare belongs alone to the mysterious mechanism called "the government." Every time we allow or force the government, because of our own individual or local failures, to take over a question that properly belongs to us, by that much we surrender our individual responsibility, and with it a comparable amount of individual freedom. But the very core of what we mean by Americanism is individual liberty founded on individual responsibility, equality before the law, and a system of private enterprise that aims to reward according to merit.</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman">These things are basic your years in school will help you to apply these truths to the business of living in a free democracy.</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Yours is a country of free men and women, where personal liberty is cherished as a fundamental right. But the price of its continued possession is untiring alertness. </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Liberty</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> is easily lost. Witness the history of the past 20 years. Even the natural enthusiasm of warm youthful hearts for a leader can be a menace to liberty.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">It was movements of misguided young people, under the influence of older and more cynical minds, that provided the physical force to make Mussolini the tyrant of </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Italy</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> and Hitler the tyrant of </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Germany</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">. Mussolini's street song was "Giovinezza<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">" </i> "Youth." Hitler based his power most firmly on the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Hitler Jugen</i> the Hitler Youth.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">America</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">. When </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">America</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> consists of one <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">leader</i> and 143,000,000 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">followers</i>, it will no longer be </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">America</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">. Truly American leadership is not of any one man. It is of multitudes of men and women.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman">Our last war was not won by one man or a few men. It was won by hundreds of thousands and millions of men and women of all ranks. Audacity, initiative, the will to try greatly and stubbornly characterized them. Great numbers of them, if for only few minutes in some desperate crisis of battle, were leaders. </font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">You will find it so in the fields of peace. </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">America</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> at work is not just a few "Great Men" at the head of government. of corporations, or of labor unions. It is millions and millions of men and women who on farms and in factories and in stores and offices and homes are leading this country and the world toward better and better ways of doing and of making things. </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">America</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> exceeds all other lands by far in the number of its leaders. Any needless concentration of power is a menace to freedom.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman">We have the world's best machines, because we ourselves are not machines; because we have embraced the liberty of thinking for ourselves, of imagining for ourselves, and of acting for ourselves out of our own energies and inspirations. Our true strength is not in our machines, splendid as they are, but in the inquisitive, inventive, indomitable souls of our people.</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">To be that kind of soul is open to every American boy and girl; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">and it is the one kind of career that </i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">America</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> cannot live without.</span></i><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman">To be a good Americanworthy of the heritage that is yours, eager to pass it on enhanced and enriched is a lifetime career, stimulating, sometimes exhausting, always satisfying to those who do their best.</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Start on it now; take part in </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">America</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">'s affairs while you are still a student. There are responsibilities about your home, in your neighborhood, that you can assume. There are activities about your school, on your campus, that will be more productive of good by your contribution.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman">Don't think that you are too young. "Let no man despise thy youth," Paul the Apostle said to Timothy. These words apply to you as an American. Loyalty to principle, readiness to give of one's talents to the common good, acceptance of responsibility -- these are the measure of a good American, not his age in years.</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Alexander Hamilton General Washington's aide in war, President Washington's Secretary of the Treasury in peace was speaking before applauding crowds of his fellow New Yorkers on the political problems of the American Revolution when he was only 17 years old and still a student in King's College, now </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Columbia</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">University</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">. The same stuff of which </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Hamilton</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> was made is in you and all American youth today.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">But above all, while you are still at school, try to learn the "why" of your country. We Americans know "how" to produce things faster and better on the whole than any other people. But what will it profit us to produce <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">things</i> unless we know what we are producing them <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">for</i>, unless we know what purpose animates </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">America</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">? </span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman">To assure each citizen his inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness was the "why" behind the establishment of this Republic and is today the "why" for its continued existence. What that means to you personally, what you must do toward its fulfillment, cannot be answered completely in a letter. But I repeat that the answer can be found in your school, if you seek it deliberately and conscientiously. You need neither genius nor vast learning for its comprehension.</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">To be a good American is the most important job that will ever confront you. But essentially it is nothing more than being a good member of your community, helping those who need your help, striving for a sympathetic understanding of those who oppose you, doing each new day's job a little better than the previous day's, placing the common good before personal profit. The </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">American</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Republic</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> was born to assure you the dignity and rights of a human individual. If the dignity and rights of your fellow men guide your daily conduct of life, you will be a good American.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><u><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">NOTE:</span></u></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>At least 5 years ago I started to write this up, but didn't finish at that time. But NOW after mailing the article on "Abe Lincoln's Stepmother" it seemed the right time to link with it this article also.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">HOWEVER, as you no doubt noted, it was written 60 years ago. </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">America</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> has vastly changed. Youth, we need you with High School and College completion more than ever. Our nation has DRASTICALLY slipped in the last 60 years. No longer is schooling linked with a strong home and church.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman">But though the times are desperate, you as youth with the challenge of "Ike," can make a difference. We can return to the better standards of the past.</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">On April 1<sup>st</sup> I mailed out an article entitled "The Left's Ideological Unacceptability" by Newt Gingrich, taken from his latest book of this year entitled "REAL CHANGE." THIS will in the hands of youth and the rest of us from all political persuasions -- or none help give direction how to preserve our nation of "</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">America</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">."</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman">Different? Yes. Possible? also Yes! For you, young men and women it is a time of both crisis and challenge. Your schooling is more than ever important. Let home and church join this same standard. The principles and goals set forth by Dwight Eisenhower are still today valid, relevant and compelling. The choice is yours. I believe a sufficient contingent of you will hear, respond and triumph. For God and country! Youth, Arise!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></span></p>
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