Just want to quote from a Newsweek Business story: .."The national academies' report points out that China and India combined graduate 950,000 engineers every year, compared with 70,000 in America; that for the cost of one chemist or engineer in the U.S. a company could hire five chemists in China or 11 engineers in India; that of the 120 $1 billion-plus chemical plants being built around the world one is in the United States and 50 are in China.." Zakaria: How Long Will America Lead the World? - Leadership and Innovation - MSNBC.com http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13123358/site/newsweek/#storyContinued