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Dearth of a Nation

By Benjamin Wallace-Wells, Washington Monthly. Posted March 3, 2005.


America's economy is losing its high-tech competitive edge and Washington hasn't noticed.

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Benjamin Wallace-Wells is an editor of The Washington Monthly.

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