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    Wanted: Scientists and Engineers!

    After generations of world leadership, the US is falling behind in science and engineering. We look at the challenges and opportunities of a changing world. Also, Afghan officials talk peace with the Taliban, and business and cultural bankruptcy at the Tribune Company.

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    By Warren Olney • Oct 6, 2010 • 50m Listen

    After generations of world leadership, the US is falling behind in science and engineering. We look at the challenges and opportunities of a changing world. Also, Afghan officials talk peace with the Taliban, and bad management and big bonuses at the Tribune Company, one of America’s media powerhouses.

    Banner image: Dr. Cynthia Evans opens a pass-through chamber to demonstrate the 'Geolab' glovebox rock sample testing laboratory inside the Habitat Demonstration Unit Pressurized Excursion Module, a concept off-Earth living and work quarters for astronauts stationed in space, September 15, 2010 at NASA's Black Point Lava Flow in the north Arizona desert, north of Flagstaff, Arizona. Photo: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images

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      Warren Olney

      former KCRW broadcaster

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      Andrea Brody

      Senior Producer, KCRW's Life Examined and To the Point podcast

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