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Top U.S. schools and laboratories are worried that repercussions from the alleged theft of nuclear secrets will hamper the recruitment of talented Asian and Asian-American researchers, says the Wall Street Journal . Since the charges in May that China gathered a rich harvest of nuclear secrets from ethnic Chinese lab workers, the U.S. government has slowed the visa approval process, making academic exchanges with China more difficult.
Aunified press criticizes the ruling coalition (the Liberal and National parties) for using the tax plan as an election trump card, and an Age editorial blasts the government, noting that there has been "little headway against unemployment, manufacturing export growth has slowed, and the innovation culture was receding."
3 percent annually; in 1990-93, its growth slowed down to a healthy 3.0 percent annually; and in 1993-97, it grew by 3.3 percent annually.
Our technological improvements have dramatically slowed natural selection.
Some greatly slowed their own descent in order to assist nonambulatory civilians.