to patronizingly justify the off-shoring of American jobs, tell them the story of
Douglas Prasher:
http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081011/NEWS/810110328By Aaron Gouveia
agouveia@capecodonline.com
October 11, 2008
Twenty years ago, Douglas Prasher was one of the driving forces behind research that earned a Nobel Prize in chemistry this week. But today, he's just driving.
Prasher, 57, works as a courtesy shuttle operator at a Huntsville, Ala., Toyota dealership. While his former colleagues will fly to Stockholm in December to accept the Nobel Prize and a $1.4 million check, the former Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution scientist will be earning $10 an hour while trying to put two of his children through college.
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After stints at a U.S. Department of Agriculture laboratory and working for NASA in Huntsville, Prasher was out of work for a year before he took a job at the car dealership...Prasher hopes the Nobel Prize exposure will lead to a job offer in his field, ideally back to Falmouth, where he said he lived happily for 14 years.
The question is: Why is an obviously qualified and talented scientist not gainfully, permanently employed in his field here in the U.S.?
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