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Nov 12 2007 12:00am EDT

Counting Foreign Students

Dani Rodrik gives the NYT a slap on the wrist today for its article saying that foreign students "added to the economy" to the tune of $14.5 billion last year. The article was based on a press release from the Institute of International Education; the offending figure comes in the 12th of 12 paragraphs.

The obvious question, then, is why the NYT led with the rather fuzzy and meaningless $14.5 billion number, rather than the much more germane news, headlined in the release, that foreign enrollment in US universities is finally rising again after falling for some time. I can't say I can think of any good reason: can you?

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