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Brain Gain; Sending workers abroad doesn't mean squandering minds. For many countries, diaspora talent is the key to success.(Cover Story)

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Byline: Mac Margolis, With Sudip Mazumdar, Craig Simons, Kim Gurney, Maureen Chigbo, Liat Radcliffe and Jaime Cunningham

Toxoplasmosis is a nasty disease. Left untreated, it can cause birth defects, miscarriages, even blindness. So in January 2002, when Santa Isabel do Ivai, a town in southern Brazil, was hit with the country's worst outbreak, authorities were understandably alarmed. Brazilian epidemiologists suspected tainted drinking water, but they needed to be sure. So they called Alexandre da Silva, a molecular biologist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta; he had mastered sophisticated diagnostic techniques that allowed ...

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