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...ready to hate your government again. Unless a radical new stance is taken and some laws are changed, we will see the effects of this brain drain everywhere. The CDC might be short on biologists when the pandemic hits. Your tax refund might be late, owing to a paucity of number crunchers. Iraq veterans may be given poor medical care at the VA hospitals due to huge nursing shortages...
...Imagine that same brain drain hitting three dozen other agencies, such as the Social Security Administration. Three million baby boomers will be applying for retirement benefits every year, but the SSA will have 40% less staff to process their claims...
...recipe for Classic Coke wasn't stolen. Coke officials deny the drug was ever an ingredient. But experts, including a former U.S. drug czar, have long said the coca plant--cocaine's source--once flavored Coke, which might explain why it was sold early on as a "brain tonic." Maybe the thieves should have had a drink...
...gulf I perceive between the athletes and myself the result of some fundamental change in intellect—in rapidly amassing vast amounts of knowledge. I am not arrogant enough to think that my brain has undergone, in just three years, a fundamental retooling. I have not ascended from pathetically low ”high school” level of intellect to the “college” one. No, I feel different from the rowers simply because I have been around for a bit longer and, in that brief period of time, have packed more than my share...
Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee have been debating whether the brain drain at the FBI poses a threat to national security. "The FBI cannot be a revolving door for senior managers," says Senator Chuck Grassley. "It needs stability in these important positions to fight in the war on terror...