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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...
...exhausting. Public backing for the war rose slightly after the killing of terrorist leader Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi in Iraq last month, but the unremitting body count has pushed those numbers back down again. More than half the public believes going to war was not worth the cost. The drain on U.S. resources is becoming embarrassing. According to the Associated Press, the diversion of money for Iraq is partly responsible for a shortfall in an Army fund that has left one base, Fort Bragg, unable to buy office supplies. Another base, Fort Sam Houston, has received utility disconnection notices...
There is another cost, and that is the drain of brainpower and psychic energy in the Administration, from the President on down. Governments habitually overestimate what they can achieve and underestimate how much of their working day they have to spend on the really tricky issue at hand. Bush's aides say he and they can multitask--"We can walk and chew gum at the same time," says one--but the ceaseless need to make a bad situation passable is a drag on the entire enterprise. "If Iraq gets better, everything gets better," a White House official says. "If Iraq...
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...
...part, I don’t think it’s competition that drives our extracurricular obsessions; I think it’s self-reliance. Emerson argues that we should be judged by the work we do. He warns us against impersonal, distant causes that drain the force from our lives and encourages us to devote ourselves instead to experiences in which we can best answer the call of our genius. For many students at Harvard, extracurriculars provide exactly this sort of opportunity—an environment that grants us both the freedom to explore and create unrestrained...