One only needs to attend a UW masters or post-graduate ceremony for the
natural sciences to witness this phenomena.
The more interesting research will be to find out how many of these
graduates return to their homelands upon graduation.
I will bet the brightest ones stay here to work in labs like the one in Los
Alamos, New Mexico.

Is this good for America?  Is it a sign of American success  or a symptom
of American weakness?
The answers to the above will depend on WSJ's definitions of "good",
"success" and "weakness".

Mensah.



                                                                  
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HIDDEN COSTS OF BRAIN GAIN

Nearly 40% of the  graduate students at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology are from  abroad.  More foreigners than Americans are studying
graduate physics at  U.S. schools.  Michigan State University reports 153
applicants for its  graduate program in statistics: seven from the U.S.,
123
from  China.

Is this good for America?  Is it a sign of American success  or a symptom
of
American weakness?

Wall Street Journal
Thursday,  March 1, 2001