THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN: "The thing I love most about America is that there's
always somebody who doesn't get the word somebody who doesn't understand
that in a Great Recession you're supposed to hunker down, downsize and just
hold on for dear life. I have a couple of friends who fit that bill, who
think a recession is a dandy time to try to discover better and cheaper ways
to do things. They both happen to be Indian-Americans--one a son of the
Himalayas, who came to America on a scholarship and went to work for NASA to
try to find a way to Mars; the other a son of New Delhi, who came here and
found the Sun, Sun Microsystems. Both are serial innovators. Both are now
shepherding clean-tech start-ups that have the potential to be disruptive
game changers. They don't know from hunkering down. They just didn't get the
word. As a result, one has produced a fuel cell that can turn natural gas or
natural grass into electricity; the other has a technology that might make
coal the cleanest, cheapest energy source by turning its carbon-dioxide
emissions into bricks to build your next house. Though our country may be
flagging, it's because of innovators like these that you should never ever
write us off."

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