Word: drain
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More than Arab pressure, however, may be riling Gorbachev. Seventy percent of the work force of the departing Jews are professionals and technicians. "The brain-drain issue is really worrying the Soviet legislature," says a U.S. diplomat based in Moscow. Perhaps for that reason, the Soviet parliament last week postponed until September adoption of a new emigration law that would permit almost all Jews to leave the country. But even with the remaining restrictions, Israel is enjoying a windfall from Moscow's brain drain. The newcomers offer expertise in fields ranging from medicine and engineering to computer technology and nuclear...
Since the early 1980s, doctors have operated on fetuses, fixing urinary- tract blockages, for example, or inserting needles to drain excess fluid from the brain. But never before had physicians successfully performed such major surgery in the womb. Harrison hopes that his technique can be used to correct other potentially fatal problems, including large lung or spinal tumors and certain heart conditions. Several experts echoed that optimism. "We're in a whole new era of fetal treatment," said Dr. Eugene Pergament, head of reproductive genetics at Northwestern Memorial Hospital...
Thus one man spent $160.6 million for a brace of paintings, sending the top end of the market from obscenity into farce; and the drain of America's cultural patrimony continued, watched by hamstrung museums that were now selling, not buying. New York's Guggenheim Museum sold a 1914 Kandinsky for $20.9 million and a fine early Chagall for $14.85 million. Long may the museum's public rejoice in the American minimal and conceptual art -- bricks on the floor, words on paper and the like -- that it plans to buy with the proceeds...
Whatever the subject matter, heavy metal unequivocally adds up to a high-voltage rock 'n roll experience. This means that getting the most out of metal can result in a sapping of one's energy, a physical and emotional drain from which it may take days to recover...
...forefront of particle-physics research. Americans dominated the field from the mid-1940s to the 1970s, but Europe's CERN started stealing much of the glory in the 1980s. Without the SSC, its proponents contend, many of the best American physicists will emigrate to Europe. In fact, the brain drain has already begun: last year, for the first time, the number of American experimenters working at CERN surpassed the total number of scientists from CERN's 14 member countries who had moved to U.S. research centers...