A few years ago, the Pittsburgh region was so desperate to hang on to its brightest young people that its boosters thought about running television ads featuring "Border Guard Bob", a patrolman who would have stopped youngsters on their way out of town and urged them to stay. Wisely, the boosters scrapped that idea. And increasingly it seems as though the worries were misplaced anyway. Many of the graduates from Pittsburgh's 34 universities-led by Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh-do stick around, and some of them are finding work in cutting-edge scientific fields. A couple of decades after the collapse of the local steel industry prompted many Pitts-burghers to flee, the city has a rosier future.
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