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Substantial numbers of highly skilled immigrant workers have begun leaving the United States for their home countries, potentially damaging the economy’s ability to recover by removing a key source of talent, suggests a recent study led by a Harvard researcher. Skilled immigrants who have historically stayed in the United States have proved a key source of innovation for the nation’s economy, according to Vivek Wadhwa, a Law School senior research associate who led the study. Wadhwa said 52 percent of Silicon Valley startups and a quarter of startups nationwide were started by immigrants...
Among his own priorities, Baucus added, a key one is "delivery reform" - changing the system so that medical providers are paid according to the quality of health care they deliver, not the quantity. "That's the biggest opportunity," he said. "It's going to be the driver" of reform. (Read "Obama Moves Health Care to the Front Burner...
...regularly speaks by phone with Senator Edward M. Kennedy - who in his capacity as head of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee has been working on the issue at a distance as he undergoes treatment for brain cancer - and has been meeting with some of the key players in the House, including Energy and Commerce Committee chairman Henry Waxman and Ways and Means chairman Charlie Rangel...
...tells TIME. "They were well armed and well trained. They had rocket launchers, grenades and Kalashnikovs. They were also well trained in the use of explosives. The police have discovered a vehicle that was used by the gunmen that was packed with explosives. The engine was running with the key in. If anyone turned off the car, it would have blown up. We are not afraid - the people of Lahore are not afraid. We'll get the bastards who did this...
...Bashir's government is accused of playing a key planning role in the Darfur conflict, which has killed some 300,000 people and displaced 2.5 million in five years. In July, chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo sought an arrest warrant for al-Bashir on allegations that he oversaw plans to exterminate three ethnic groups in Darfur...