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I sent this last week as an op-ed response to an article by Diana Jean Schemo of the New York Times, “Fake college degrees raise terror concerns” which was republished in the Austin American-Statesman on Sunday, 6/29/2008. Her claim was that fake degrees could help terrorists gain entry to the U.S., but it’s important to understand why this industry exists in the first place. Internet startups o…