Camera Raw is for ?

I'm looking for somewhere to read up on what Camera Raw is actually for in photoshop.
I don't really understand it.  I import my photos to LR3 and then I sometimes edit them in CS5.  What is Adobe Camera Raw in photoshop for?  Is it the same program that processes my photos in LR3?  Is there a benefit to opening files with ACR in photoshop instead of LR?
Thanks for the help.

If you want top professional results, shoot in camera RAW and open your photos in Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) in 16-bit ProPhoto RGB (or 16-bit Adobe RGB) — I am working on a "professional" job right now for a gal whose wedding pictures were shot in .jpg (with a very highend pro camera) — her pictures looked like crap (a lot of clipped blacks and blown out highlightes...I did pretty good on most of her files getting the tones back in place but the Histogram took a beating and it was three times the work than if she had RAW files.
Jeff Schewe http://www.schewephoto.com/ wrote in a forum post:
A raw file is a raw dump of the sensor data unaffected by any camera color conversion or tone curve. The advantage of Camera Raw is that YOU get to decide the white balance and the tone curve applied - not the camera...
In fact, he wrote the book on the workflow I use:
"Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS4"

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