[xtiansimon]

> “I’ve always been an internationalist,” says Meng, who became a Singapore citizen in 2004, “and I think that…”

Choices and decisions. And what of the scientific community in the US who don’t have ties abroad? Who don’t choose to leave the country?

If the government isn’t funding research, and a university position is not open, then you have to turn to industry. And if that doesn’t turn up, then you’re the most overqualified… librarian?

I’m thinking about the more diffused pattern of students with the aptitude and disposition for science going into industry. Is this the environment which drives more manufacturing in the US?

Is this the vision the administration is chasing? (If you look past the racism and corruption, and presume there is an economic outcome the president and all of the republican congress appears to support him for?)