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...This attitude is also inconsistent with President Obama’s pronounced goals in domestic policy. The idea of withdrawing funds that support the most cutting-edge research by the nation’s best and brightest in a field in which the U.S. has perhaps the largest lead over any other in the world—advanced technological development—is questionable at best. It goes directly against the ideals he has promoted domestically of stimulating our economy, supporting science and technology, and providing opportunities for young engineers and scientists to engage in the most exciting and advanced...
...ripping apart families. A CIA officer posted in a war zone for three or four successive one-year tours risks coming home to face divorce - or the alternative of leaving the CIA. It's a shame because the CIA right now is actually attracting the best and the brightest, possibly the best recruits since its founding in 1947. (Read Six Ways...
...that was the work of the Undergraduate Admissions Council, which holds a phone-a-thon—staffed by volunteers—every year. Today, Flyby jumped at the chance to chat up some pre-frosh and answer the pressing questions of the next generation of the brightest and best students in the nation...
...ecology of business and employment at the high end has already been transformed by the Wall Street crash. The end of the boom in the financial industry means that careers manipulating money will no longer be so seductive to such a disproportionate share of our best and brightest. Among the 2007 graduates of Harvard College who went straight to work, half the kids heading to banks and consultancies said that if money weren't an issue, they'd be embarking on different career paths, and the 20% of the class that went to work in public service, politics, the arts...
...Military." Representatives from Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems and various academic institutions were in attendance. "Look, we can be agnostic about the politics of climate change," MOD science director Stein said before the meeting. "But there are operational reasons why we need these new technologies. And we need the brightest people helping us solve the problem." On that last point, at least, a die-hard environmentalist - or even Dwight D. Eisenhower - couldn't have said it better.- With reporting by Mark Thompson / Washington...