The AEA - or at least that part of it which is to be sold off - consists mostly of brainpower and technology accumulated from half a century of developing Britain's atomic energy programme. The government is right to want to privatise the AEA.
"I'm proud of the state's brainpower and research capability and its help in a strong military," says Gov. Dukakis.
Indeed, the Raleigh-Durham area is drawing North Carolina natives seeking opportunity and companies seeking brainpower.
Analysts say that 5995 M will deliver more brainpower for the dollar than the competition, chiefly International Business Machines.
And, while noting that whales possess by far the largest brains of any creature on the planet, she dutifully records that scientists have not yet figured out what these super-intelligent creatures do with all that brainpower.