Russian President Urges Cooperation to End Brain Drain; Survey Finds New Zealanders to Be Most Literate; Conference Cancelled Over Arab-Israeli Dispute

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia is calling for new cooperation between scientists and his government to end a brain drain.

He acknowledged in a speech last month that 30,000 researchers have left the country in recent years.

During a "long period of scarce resources," government funds prescribed on paper for the development of the sciences have not been put toward that end, he said in remarks to members of the Russian Academy of

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