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NYTimes.com: Dot Earth: 'Gathering Storm' Approaching Category 5

I wouldn't call this "sobering," but rather "frightening" and "enraging" and " EPIC FAIL." When will the navel-gazing, power-obsessed idiots in Congress, to say nothing of those in the Executive branch, start thinking strategically, for the medium and long-term future of this country? Where is the systemic spending on math an science education? Where is the education reform we kept hearing about, the incentive pay and the broken teachers' unions we were promised? Yeah, sure - Alas, poor Yorik.    

OPINION   | September 27, 2010
Dot Earth: 'Gathering Storm' Approaching Category 5
By ANDREW C. REVKIN
The country's intellectual infrastructure is still eroding, a new report finds.