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...Chinese-American graduate student named Dongxia is strolling through what has become a springtime mating ritual at the nation's top schools of engineering: the tech job fair. In an attention-grabbing booth on one side of the gym at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, recruiters from Microsoft make work for the software giant seem like a highly paid extension of college life: a video shows young men and women at the Redmond, Wash., headquarters playing with Nerf toys between all-night bouts of writing code. Nearby, the Boeing booth touts its work on the space station. But Dongxia (pronounced...
...attraction is mutual. "You're prime time for us," coos recruiter Bryan Peters. "Have you had much work in toxicology? In things that would harm living organisms?" Dongxia is intrigued. "It sounds very exciting," she says. This just might be the start of a beautiful relationship...
Such lines don't always work. Peters pours the charm on Dongxia, but she already has a better offer: running her own lab for a research company that would start her at $80,000 a year. Still, all is not lost for the agency. Alan, the biomedicine student, is hot to trot, and there are more where he came from...
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