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Literature chronicling the cultural Revolution is rife with memoirs written by China's best and brightest-the doctors, artists and intellectuals who were sent to the countryside to toil miserably as field hands during Mao Zedong's program to "reeducate" the intelligentsia. Not all who were targets of class warfare were destroyed by it, however. Mao's Last Dancer, the latest biography set in the Cultural Revolution, tells the story of a peasant boy from northern China who was propelled to international stardom by Mao's social engineering...
...President Lawrence H. Summers wrote letters to Secretary of State Colin Powell and Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Tom Ridge ’67. Summers cited the recent drop in applications as evidence that new visa procedures established after Sept. 11 are persuading the best and the brightest to seek education elsewhere...
...Japan's most critical problems-its drastically underfunded and byzantine public pension system-has thrown the entire government into chaos. Public outrage over lawmakers' failures to pay into the national pension system has tainted dozens of politicians, claimed the careers (at least temporarily) of some of its brightest stars, including Kan himself, and left the opposition party crippled...
Meanwhile, universities are maneuvering for position, fearing that they could lose their brightest scientists to programs overseas. It was only six years ago that a biologist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, James Thomson, isolated the first human stem cells from in vitro embryos. But in February, South Korean researchers stunned the scientific world by successfully harvesting stem cells from cloned human embryos--considered the most promising avenue for treating disease. A prestigious American investigator moved to Britain, where the research is encouraged. Now Stanford and Harvard hope to raise at least $100 million each for new stem-cell...
...It’s creating ignorance among the greatest universities and the brightest students,” he said of efforts to red-flag international students and keep them from research opportunities. “We have to create a culture of science where no one wants to misuse...