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• - Anne Lee Saxenian examines the brain drain and attempts to reverse it in India.
  
• - Historically, wars between nations, and later between people, have always been about land and its approriation. Now that the land is generally distributed, a new type of war has appeared, the war about technology and its control writes Shimon Perez.
  
• - Richard Florida argues in the Washington Monthly that the "brain drain" is being reversed as the "creative class" in the United States is being depleted.
  
• - Layoffs in the telecom and technology sector exceeded 600,000 in 2001, precipitating a reverse brain drain. Edwin Rubenstein writes that many professionals in the high tech industry are now leaving the United States and returning to South Asia.
  
• - When academics boast a 100 per cent employment rate for graduates, you'd think they and their peers would find much to celebrate. Not so for medical radiation science professionals report the Sydney Morning Herald
  
• - European Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin presented two new publications on Europe's position in research and innovation. The "Key figures 2003-2004 for science, technology and innovation", and the "Brain drain study - Emigration flow
  
• - Project to keep intellectual talent from leaving Thailand.
  
• - Interview published in Africa Journal exploring the issue of African students who study abroad and never return.
  
• - Not all German scientists agree there's a problem with researchers abandoning Europe. Article in The Scientist by Ned Stafford.
  
• - Article from Time Europe explores strategies to stop the brain drain of talent to the United States.
  
• - A bill that would give visas to high-tech foreign students will exploit the greatest minds of the third world for the sake of American industry.
  
• - Article by Peter Schroepfer in the Korean newspaper Chosunilbo (English Edition).
  
• - Article by science writer Ned Rozell.
  
• - June 1999 report by William J. Carrington and Enrica Detragiache for the International Monetary Fund explores the brain drain and the countries affected by it.
  
• - Michael Kanellos says there's a reason U.S. high-tech companies are hiring an increasing number of engineers and other employees from overseas: In many cases, they are smarter than us.
  
• - Robin Cook examines possible solutions to stem the loss of doctors, scientists and engineers by underdeveloped countries and states suffering from economic crisis.