pediatrics the american cancer institute they all say that people that live and work around agricultural areas where there's heavy pesticide use have higher incidence of cancer of. disease. after 17 years of the doctor here in hawaii i'm completely convinced that we have longstanding chronic effects of the sides i have no doubt in my mind any longer. my daughter is as mad and she's been to. emerge many of. my grandchildren one of them as. respiratory problems too like she is developing asthma. yeah i mean asthma respiratory infections they're almost the norm on our side of the island and the more i spoke to people the more i discover that it's just kind of a way of life. in the environment can and is aerosolized it does get into the air that we breathe and when it's taken into the lungs and into the smallest air exchange units it can move from the i'll be a law into the bloodstream especially a pregnant mother's blood stream and we know corporate reforms can cross the placenta and from there it gets into the baby circulation and then crosses into the brain we have looked at the relations

american research institutions. this drive has already led to the investigation and departure of three scientists from a cancer centerniversity of texas and raised fears of racial profiling from asian american scientists all over the country. the department of energy recently issued a memo banning its scientists from participating in foreign recruitment programs sponsored by china and other sensitive countries. the "wall street journal" reported. remember that foreign collaboration has been the bedrock of american strength in science. 39% of american nobel prizes in science were won by the foreign-born. scott moore, a china scholar at the university of pennsylvania says while there may be costs openness in science, we gain more than we lose in an open exchange of ideas. rather than trying to stop china from innovating, a much better strategy would be for the united states to massively increase funding for basic research and technology and welcome talented immigrants with open arms. the strategy, in other words, that made america number one in the first place. >>> next on "gps," how do you feed almost 10 billion peopl