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It’s a new world, and we barely seem to have noticed. Places we 1 with inexpensive low-end manufacturing are going high-tech in a big 2 The spotlight is mainly in China and India, for good 3 The Chinese economy is surging, 4 by increasingly sophisticated engineering, with products 5 from automobiles to semiconductors. India has nearly as 6 an economy, powered by a cheap English-speaking labor force who 7 in software and services.
Along with these 8 giants, countries like Japan, South Korea and Singapore are also challenging America’s 9 . If present trends continue, 90% of all the world’s scientists and engineers will be living in Asia 10 2010, according to Nobel Prize winner Richard E. Smalley, professor of chemistry and physics at Rice University.