September 1, 2006

Give Us the Tools

By FRANK H.T. RHODES

National and world leaders are promoting competitiveness as a key to prosperity and security, many of them noting that competitiveness needs a strong foundation of science and technology. But fewer have recognized the central role of the nation's research universities in creating that foundation — by graduating the bulk of the nation's professional scientists, engineers, and mathematicians, as well as a large proportion of science teachers; conducting most of the nation's basic

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