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Herbert Grover: Emphasis on sports over academics hurting U.S.

America, with its emphasis on sports, is becoming a nation of physical giants and intellectual pygmies.

….Over half of the instructors teaching in the graduate programs in engineering in the U.S. are foreign born. The proclamation that the U.S. is the most innovative, creative society in the world, with the most skilled work force and greatest universities, needs candid introspection.