Marty Peretz of the New Republic draws our attention to one of the major downsides of the vast numbers of foreign students welcomed in our universities. Encouraged by then-governor Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts, a group of Iranians, including the future nuclear scientists who developed Iran's nuclear program, came to M.I.T.Farah Stockman of the Boston Globe did the reporting on this story. She writes:At least three have spent their careers building the Iranian nuclear program that Washington is now fervently trying to curtail, according to a Globe investigation that tracked down 28 of the program's 35 graduates.One graduate -- Mansour Haj Azim , remembered by classmates as quiet and studious -- was a leader of Iran's nuclear program and, according to one widely cited report, the supervisor of a suspected weapons-related site.Meanwhile, nearly two-thirds of the graduates are working in the United States, some of them in the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission and for American...(Read Full Post)