In today's Wall Street Journal (subscription required).

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This art specialty (preservation) is a microcosm of the crisis in lost
expertise that faces many technical endeavors today, from nuclear
weapons maintenance to manned space flight. Critical science and
engineering skills that can be gained only through hands-on experience
are disappearing as a generation of experts retire. "People talk about
the learning curve," says California Institute of Technology physicist
Paul Dimotakis. "Nobody talks about the forgetting curve."
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124899387236395233.html#mod=article-outset-box

-- 
Bruce L. White, CRM, PMP
Orange County, CA
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