How to Go Global

摘要

Omar Yaghi was a teenager in Jordan in 1981 when his father asked him to choose between two starkly different futures: Go to the Soviet Union to become a doctor, on a full scholarship that his father had arranged, or move to the United States and make his own way, with only a few months' support from his family. His father was offering him the choice of studying in one of the two most technologically advanced countries in the world because Yaghi's prospects for obtaining an advanced education in Jordan were slim.