>on 9/4/02 10:29 AM, Doug Henwood at dhenwood at panix.com wrote:
>
>> Look Buster, there are no "ivory tower academics" around here. I
>> dropped out of grad school 23 years ago and have been self-employed
>> since 1981. Carrol Cox is a retired academic, but he's surrounded by
>> Illinois cornfields and, as far as I know, lives at sea level.
>
>The lowest elevation in Illinois is at the Mississippi River in Alexander
>County, at 279 feet above mean sea level.
Ok, ground level.
Doug