Leaving the nest | Maine's best and brightest young people continue to leave the state. What can we do to stem the ongoing brain drain?

One night a few weeks ago, Angelique Carson, a senior at the University of Southern Maine in Portland, took a cab downtown. When the cabby discovered she was a student, he asked what she was studying. She told him she was an English major.

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