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PreviewMany people like to travel, but moving from one country to another can create challenging problems. In this unit’s first article, the author looks at “brain drain”—that is, what happens when he and other highly trained people leave the developing world to work in the West. The second author is an American who has moved to Europe. He is unhappy about the measures American officials use to discourage people from moving to the United States. Finally, an American-born Chinese athlete begins to see the world with new eyes when she visits the land her family moved from. Although war, time, and a vast ocean have separated her family, she finds that her great-grandmother’s hope is stronger than all the things that have divided them. Perhaps these writers can help you get a broader perspective on the challenging problems you will face in the years ahead.(Stop the Brain Drain)A bill now before Congress would give preferential treatment to foreign students with advanced degrees in science and engineering who want to work in the United States.To those of us who are immigrants, the bill seems simply to sanction a policy secretly implemented by U.S. industry for nearly four decades -- namely, stealing brains from the third world.Ingeneral, the 21st Century Technology Resources and CommercialLeadership Act, which Sen. JohnMcCain brought to the Senate in late 1999, is designed to keep the U.S. high-tech industry ontop by filling the need for skilled technology workers. One provision of the bill states that, among non-immigrant visaapplicants, the state should give preference to foreign nationals with secondary degrees in math, science, engineering or technology. Such a provision would provide temporary skilled personnel in those fields.During the 1960s and 1970s, politicians in my native country, India, used to wave the slogan Stop the Brain Drain - a reference to the fact that the cream of India was leaving for the lucrative shores of England and America.In that post-indepe