And expanding and developing this science and engineering workforce is critical to the nation's economic innovation and productivity and competitiveness."

VOA: special.2010.04.01

Monday saw the publication of this essay in Scientific American by Robert Fortner, highlighting a new NSF report on the continuing decline of US Science productivity.

FORBES: U.S. Science Education: Standards of Mediocrity?

Science and technology delivered new methods, and productivity of people and land rose.

BBC: Biofuel crops transform German farming