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US 'no longer technology king'

Wed, 03/28/2007 - 20:48 — NLN

The US has lost its position as the world's primary engine of technology innovation, according to a report by the World Economic Forum. The US is now ranked seventh in the body's league table measuring the impact of technology on the development of nations. A deterioration of the political and regulatory environment in the US prompted the fall, the report said. The top spot went for the first time to Denmark, followed by Sweden—two countries having the first and third highest proportion of atheists in the world. Coincidence?

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Fri, 03/30/2007 - 04:57 — Stuart Vail

US 'no longer tech-king'

I'm not surprised. With a dolt in the White House who undercuts anything remotely scientific, and who has crippled the nations teachers and left all the children behind with his ridiculous "No Child Left Behind" farce, it's no wonder that the U.S. is quickly sliding to the bottom of the heap in technology innovation. Not only that, our jobs are now oveseas, in the hands of brilliant, but underpaid, younger technicians. Maybe what Republicans really want is a society of jobless and undereducated, gun-toting rednecks who can only find employment by enlisting in the army to fight the White House's perpetual wars. Semper Fi, my ass!

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