More foreign scientists shun the United States.

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Foreign-born scientists and engineers comprise a large portion of the defense workforce in the United States, but they are beginning to turn to other countries for jobs, said Jacques Gander, former undersecretary of defense for acquisition. For the first time, more Chinese scientists and engineers are going to the United Kingdom than to the United States, he said. When given a choice, they try to stay away from the United States, where there is...