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| | The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Losing Our Edge? |
 | | I wouldn't say they were universally gloomy, but I did detect something I hadn't detected before: a real undertow of concern that America is losing its competitive edge vis-à-vis China, India, Japan and other Asian tigers, and that the Bush team is deaf, dumb and blind to this situation. |
 | | First, one of America's greatest assets its ability to skim the cream off the first-round intellectual draft choices from around the world and bring them to our shores to innovate will be diminished, and that in turn will shrink our talent pool. |
 | | And second, we could lose a whole generation of foreigners who would normally come here to study, and then would take American ideas and American relationships back home. |
| www.nytimes.com /2004/04/22/opinion/22FRIE.html?ex=1397966400&en=0d1b5bda90aeb5f3&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND (841 words) |
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