Word: exoduses
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...party of progress. Five years later, with midterms looming, they hope to leverage the issue as evidence that they represent the reality-based community, running against the theocrats. States from Connecticut to California have tried to step in with enough funding to keep the labs going and slow the exodus of U.S. talent to countries like Singapore, Britain and Taiwan. Meanwhile, private biotech firms and research universities with other sources of funding are free to create and destroy as many embryos as they like, because they operate outside the regulations that follow public funds...
...Beirut's poor and stateless have the U.N. to look after them, Beirut's rich and almost-rich can look after themselves. The signs of a mass exodus of Lebanon's wealthy class are everywhere - and telling. The city's ATMs, which normally disburse both Lebanese pounds and American dollars, are now only spitting out the brightly colored pounds, a sign that those who could have already fled - and took their hard currency with them. I took out 1 million pounds today, about $670, but I worry about how long that will last. Even the Western Union is unable...
...many college sports teams, graduation is the enemy—an annual exodus of the team’s most experienced and often most talented players. For the Harvard women’s golf team, however, the loss of three seniors—almost half of its roster—provided the opportunity for new talent to take the reins. It was freshman Ali Bode who set the tone for the upcoming year, earning a share of first-place honors in the season-opening Dartmouth Invitational. “As a freshman, it was great for her to contribute that...
...1990s, the Federal Government conducted a mass experiment that looked, in some ways, like the exodus following Katrina. Some 4,600 families in public housing projects were randomly assigned one of three different destinies. Families in the first group got a golden opportunity: a housing voucher good for relocation to any neighborhood with very low poverty. Those in the second group got a voucher for use anywhere. And a third set, the control group, stayed where...