Who Is Running America?

Melissa Rossi Says the American People Need To Get Back To Running America
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Fri, 06/15/2007 - 5:36pm. Interviews

A BUZZFLASH INTERVIEW

The point is, we're all in the boat together. It doesn't matter if you're progressive or conservative, a Republican or a Democrat. The boat has serious holes in it. The boat is sinking. We have got to figure out how to work together to mend that, before more disasters happen and before more of our rights are stripped away.
-- Melissa Rossi, author, What Every American Should Know About Who's Really Running America
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Melissa Rossi, as a journalist, travels extensively overseas, which gives her a perspective on what is happening here that provides some distance from the daily horrors of the Bush Administration. Moreover, she gets to see America as people of other nations see us. That maybe why she wrote one of our best-selling BuzzFlash premiums awhile back, "What Every American Should Know About Who's Really Running the World."

Rossi, who was born and raised in Dayton, is so appealing in large part because she is an independent journalist. She isn't reporting within the context of a large corporate "news" institution that incorporates a culture of appeasing the status quo, particularly the "Masters of the Universe" in the White House. And she also has a refreshing, inquisitive, ebullient personality, which no doubt makes a lot of interviewees comfortable in diclosing information that they might otherwise keep to themselves.

She is carrying on the tradition of an earlier brand of journalist vagabond, accountable only to the truth and the deadline that she has with her publisher.

We interviewed Rossi while she was preparing to write a book on the Middle East, putting together her itinerary from temporary digs in Thailand.
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BuzzFlash: Based on your book, What Every American Should Know About Who's Really Running America, I think it's safe to say that you would agree with the notion that whoever is running America, it's not the American people.

Melissa Rossi: That would be exactly the first thing that I would say. It's not the common, everyday citizen. We have lost our voice and often given up our ability to influence.

BuzzFlash: What's happened with the notion of democracy? This country was founded by people who rebelled against a king who ruled from afar. Built into the very notion of our Constitution and our Declaration of Independence, was the election of people to office who represented the will of the people -- this is the very basic notion of a democracy. What has happened to that?

Melissa Rossi: I think a few things have happened. One is that, to a certain extent, we've given up our power. We've just given them that and said, until recently, "Okay, you know, whatever." We've been "whatever" Americans. And we haven't followed events in the news.

Simultaneously, the media has fallen asleep and has been unable to investigate past a press release. We haven't gotten the information. We've been fairly comfortable, so we've become complacent.

And there's been an attitude like, "Come on people. Just let us do our job in D.C., and you guys go to work, and we'll just take care of everything." A friend of mine believes that it actually started with Kissinger and Nixon, and that they just gave the message to the public: "Don't worry your pretty little heads about this. We got a handle, kids." I don't know if it was because of them, or because people got burnt out over Vietnam, but we became a more hedonistic society.

We gave up our power, and we need to take it back. We do that by informing ourselves and making noise. I don't think e-mails are terribly effective, but we can go to our representatives' and our senators' regional offices, and go with a group of friends -- and make an appointment, which is important to them.

BuzzFlash: We should point out that your last chapter is about "What You Can Do." The book has a "take action" section. And as we put in our review in BuzzFlash, your introduction opens very movingly with, "This book may break your heart because this book is about a beautiful idea that has gone tragically wrong, or so it certainly appears at the moment."

You mention Kissinger and suggest that with him there was a beginning of a paternalistic concept of the Executive Branch of government, and the view that they knew better. Kissinger thought he knew realpolitik, as he called it. He knew that, for the best interests of the United States, sometimes our most cherished values had to be compromised.

Today it's torture, but back in Kissinger's day it was death squads in Central America. It was support of the nations in South America that tortured and murdered tens of thousands of people in order to maintain military dictatorships. It was Kissinger who bombed Cambodia, that led to the Khmer Rouge, who killed two to three million people. And Kissinger justified all this by saying, sometimes evil or bad things have to be done. People have to be sacrificed in order to save democracy. People like Kissinger "know better" about this than the masses and need to be in power to make decisions that may be unsavory, but it's all for the greater good of the nation.

Really, as you say, that concept is the same one that Dick Cheney seems to have in the back of his mind. We don't really know what's in the back of Bush's mind, if anything, but the paternalism certainly is implied in the way he approaches foreign policy.

He says: "I'm the decider, I'm the lookout man," whatever that means. I'm the one, so you don't have to worry about war. I'm the one that's paid to worry about war. That's his very paternalistic notion.

Melissa Rossi: Exactly. And it's not only about the attitude. They've been cutting off access and transparency to the people consistently. One of the most heinous and ironic examples was Dick Cheney's Energy Policy Committee. We still have no idea who really was involved in that.

Thomas Jefferson would be rolling in his grave because he was so adamant about the need for citizens to inform themselves. It's the only safeguard of the very ideals that the country was founded on, of our liberty, of our democracy, of representation of the people. The only safeguard is the people, and he believed it was important to educate them, and important for the people to be part of that whole system. That's what I'm trying to do with all of these books.

BuzzFlash: The first chapter of What Every American Should Know About Who's Really Running America is about "something stinks," and the next one's about lobbying. They seem inextricably intertwined -- that is to say, you wouldn't have all that stink without all the lobbying. The preponderance of it is financial corruption, which is to say that lobbyists and their clients, the multi-national corporations, have an enormous sway over Congress as compared to the will of the people.

Melissa Rossi: I think that lobbying has changed. We think of Jack Abramoff -- okay, well, he did overstep the bounds. But a lot of what Abramoff was doing was totally legal.

What's happened in recent years is that, in trying to clean up campaigns or election finances, they actually gave more power to the lobbyists. Now they're such an important part of the election cycle and of raising money, whether it's through holding campaign dinners, or giving money to charities, or influencing a PAC of employees who've come together to give money to a candidate. The lobbyists become the treasurer of that PAC. As a result of that, it seems the lobbyists are essentially agents or money raisers for politicians. A lobbyist is so important to a politician they can't blow him off.

BuzzFlash: A lot of people in America understand that there's a fine line between illegal lobbying and legal lobbying. The wink-and-nod connection is perfectly legal. You just can't put on paper a quid pro quo. But we can nod a quid pro quo, and that's legal.

For instance, if I am a defense contractor -- and a lot of the Abramoff and the Duke Cunningham scandals dealt with defense -- I can go to the senator who's head of appropriations and say we really would like you to fund this experimental program for a new type of helicopter. The experimental stage will be about $10 billion, but it will enhance our first-strike capabilities in an invasion and so forth. Now, we know it's controversial, and some people say this will never work as a concept. But we've talked with your staff and shown them the promise.

And the senator says: I'll take a look at it, but I can't make a decision at this time.

A week later, the defense contractor gets called by a campaign person for that senator, who works outside of the Senate office, as required by law. And the campaign staffer says the senator's having a fund raiser. We'd love to have your company as a sponsor. Of course, this is unrelated to any request you might make to the senator. But he would love to see you there. He knows of your interest in his campaign and helping him stay in the Senate. And it's only $50,000 to help sponsor this cocktail party. So the firm says yes.

A week later, the senator introduces a bill to sponsor the experimental program for the defense contractor for $10 billion. Now, everything I have laid out there is legal.

Melissa Rossi: Right.

BuzzFlash: There's nothing illegal about that. The only thing that would make it illegal would be if there was some memo that said this firm has agreed to give $50,000 in return for the senator green lighting the bill. But if it's a wink and a nod, it's legal.

Melissa Rossi: Yes, and especially if you're doing it under the guise of your employees, now, because there are some caps on corporate donations. You get your employees, or whoever you know, to help you get the earmark, or get that project, or whatever. A lot of these things happen behind closed doors in the form of the earmark, for a smaller project, usually in the millions. Maybe it's for a little museum.

BuzzFlash: Maybe with this war, a hidden dimension of what is going on is that companies become enriched because there are new contracts since equipment is destroyed. $500 billion has already been spent on the Iraq war. Someone is getting that money, among them the lobbyists.

Melissa Rossi: I wanted to mention the revolving doors, where a politician has only a one-year cool-down period, and then he can go over to K Street and set up with a lobbying firm and do exactly what we're talking about -- raising the campaign funds for his buddies over at the Senate or over in the House. And they have this incredible access. Quite a few politicians are leaving Capitol Hill and just walking a few blocks over and becoming lobbyists.

The other thing that I think is really important is that, really, the only area where the U.S. seems totally cutting edge anymore is the fact we're pumping so much money into defense. We also are really good at delivery systems. You know, FedEx works in the U.S. We do things like that well.

So much of us going into India is about Boeing and Lockheed and G.E. getting in there. American defense contractors and the people in the nuclear industries wanted to go there, because of course India has a hideous shortage of electricity. Really only about half of the houses have it there.

So G.E. really wants to move into India as well. And how are they doing that? They're lobbying. They're going under the vehicle of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which has been huge not only domestically, but in defining foreign policy and trade policy. It's all these lobbyists.

Pete Domenici had a guy, Alex Flynt, who was working with him. Then he goes over to K Street. Then he comes back and is heading one of the energy committees. And while he was over on K Street, Alex Flynt had a lot of nuclear energy customer clients. He comes back and is helping Domenici on nuclear power and that behooves his client roster from six months before. So after he gets the energy bill finally pushed through, Eric Flynn goes back to K Street, and now he works for the Nuclear Energy Institute. I mean, this is wrong. People are not aware that this is how a lot of decisions get made.

BuzzFlash: Well, and it crosses party lines. There are those in the progressive movement who talk about the bipartisan corporatist party. Former House Majority Leader, Dick Gephart, is with a lobbying firm now that is lobbying for the coal industry, basically allowing more pollution and an easing of standards. The lawmakers who become lobbyists seem to fall back on the notion that, well, we're paid to represent anybody. It's like an attorney. I don't have to believe in the cause; I'm paid for my skills as a rainmaker. That's what I'm paid to do. So then they can relieve themselves of any ethical responsibility or conflicts that might exist, whether they're Democrats or Republicans.

Melissa Rossi: You hit on two points right there. One, regulations have been softened. And, again, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has helped with that a lot. But the state of regulation is pretty alarming. The Bush Administration's Clear Skies Initiative was all about loosening regulation and did not address global warming at all.

But there's another point that I think is really important. I'm on talk radio, and people are saying, well, the progressives -- no, the conservatives -- no, you're red, or blue -- Well, as far as I can tell, that hatred that is dividing the country is as much a propaganda campaign to keep us not focused on D.C. at all, as it is a reality. I do not think Americans really hate each other as much as one may be led to believe.

If they do, we have a really big problem, because the point is, we're all in the boat together. It doesn't matter if you're progressive or conservative, a Republican or a Democrat. The boat has serious holes in it. The boat is sinking. We have got to figure out how to work together to mend that, before more disasters happen and before more of our rights are stripped away. I don't think anybody of any party wants to see Americans' rights stripped away, and our Constitution harmed. It gets harmed because we're not paying attention.

BuzzFlash: You mentioned the nuclear industry awhile back. Why do you devote a whole chapter to that.

Melissa Rossi: I think it's really important for Americans to follow. I think it's a bunch of hooey to say that nuclear energy is clean and safe, and green, and here to save the environment. It has its pluses, the biggest one being that it does not create carbon dioxide, and that's great. But what it does is generate a lot of nuclear waste, which we have yet to figure out how to deal with. And so - and the Yucca Mountain still is not open. So these nuclear plants are building up this nuclear waste that is just being stored on their site and cooling in cooling pools. This is a huge terrorist risk. It's a ridiculous risk. We already have 104 operating plants which generate about 55,000 tons of waste.

But the point is you're looking at a one million-year period to keep this stuff safe. I don't see humans having the ability to secure these sites. I think we do have an oil problem, and one of the things that's happened with nuclear energy is it gets marketed as a way to get off of oil.

When I hear politicians saying that, I want to get on the phone and start screaming at their press secretary, and say there are two separate issues here. Oil is transportation, oil is cars, oil is jet fuel, oil is trucks and buses. But nuclear energy is electricity. That's light. That's our computers. That's a whole different system in this set of energy.

So people have to look at this. When their politicians say we need to go nuclear to get off of oil, it is really literally like telling a drinker to get off the bottle and start smoking a couple packs a day. It's, I have a hole in my shoe so I'm going to buy a new hat. It's the same analogy.

BuzzFlash: Of course, we've seen that the nuclear industry can have flaws in systems. In the Soviet Union, we saw what happened at Chernobyl, which was a major historical disaster in terms of radiation poisoning and loss of human life. We saw what happened at Three Mile Island. We've seen a number of nuclear plants close because of poor repair or fissures in the storage units. So this is a type of energy that requires a vigilance which the private sector and governments have not always insured. The Three Mile Island meltdown apparently almost got to critical mass, which would have been a larger disaster than what occurred, equal to a small atomic bomb.

Melissa Rossi: There is a nuclear plant in Ohio run by First Energy. A few years ago, they found a hole in it that could have led to another meltdown situation. It was a few weeks away from having a very, very serious accident. And the reason I'm bringing it up is because First Energy just so happened to be the utility that set off that blackout in 2003.

I cannot believe the media didn't even begin to investigate this, or even try to connect the dots.

I don't know for certain if this is the truth, but I find it really interesting that there was an energy bill that was going to make a lot of utilities a lot of money, and there was going to be a lot of new development that resulted if this energy bill went through, and it kept on stalling in the House, and stalling in the House, until First Energy had caused that blackout in the Northeast.

BuzzFlash: I think it was a grid failure, if I recall.

Melissa Rossi: Right. They were the cause of it. And they even said: oh, maybe it's branches. We don't know exactly. But there was an investigation. First Energy set it off.

BuzzFlash: If I recall, the head of First Energy is a major Republican Bush contributor.

Melissa Rossi: Several of the people there were. They were also looking at a real big fine over that pineapple-sized hole, you know. And their fine, by the end of the day, after the blackout sort of went down -- I don't believe they got their hand slapped over the blackout. But the blackouts in California, brought this idea of like, oh, my God, crisis -- we need more electricity.

There are some problems. We probably do need a revamp of the grid. But that energy plan they have out now has the taxpayer backing part of it, and a new electrical facility going up every six days over the next thirty years, or something. It's ridiculous. They don't focus on the conservation. They don't look at alternative energy, like putting a solar heater on your house and getting electricity out of the water-heating system. They keep on saying this is alternative, and this is green. It's not. This idea of nuclear energy or recycling. Oh, we like that word. Recycling nuclear energy -- you know, you've heard about the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership as well?

BuzzFlash: What is that?

Melissa Rossi: That's an agreement that came out of the Bush Administration. It's being pushed through Congress and that the idea is, if the United States, and Russia, and Japan, and maybe India -- we don't know about them -- and France - of course France, because they're a big nuclear country -- would generate all this nuclear waste from the plants because the U.S. would be putting in 300 more nuclear plants than we already have over the next twenty years or so. And with this nuclear waste, since, you know, we haven't figured out really what to do with it, we would be shipping it off to Russia. Ridiculous.

And if you've looked at Russia lately, the Russian mafia is running quite a bit of Russia. It controls at least half of the banks, if not more. They're demanding protection money of everybody and their brother. So essentially I think what we would be doing is just giving the Russian mafia a lot of nuclear waste, radioactive nuclear waste, which I have a feeling they really wouldn't properly recycle.

This is an insane idea. It is absolutely out there. But this is one of the other ideas that has come out of the whole Domenici "family," which is Alex Flynn again, and Clay Sell, over at the Department of Energy. Do we really need 300 new nuclear plants?

We're getting duped. Some things that are technical may be hard to understand, but people can understand that there is a difference between electricity and oil. Oil is usually not used to generate electricity. That goes in the wheeled vehicles. And electricity is all about lights and appliances.

BuzzFlash: You tackle another hot issue in your chapter on immigration. Our BuzzFlash readership is, for lack of a better term, split on immigration. But I qualify that by saying the whole discussion of the immigration issue, as you point out in your chapter, is kind of a ruse.

Just as the Bush Clear Skies Initiative could be better termed the Bush Toxic Skies Initiative, in the case of immigration, the real issue at hand that is causing so much controversy is keeping the brown Mexicans out of our America.

No one's concerned about Polish maids in the suburbs of American cities. No one's concerned about immigration from the Soviet Union or Bulgaria. The issue is really one dealing with Mexico.

That is what is causing the red heat controversy, particularly in our border states - Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, southern California. And you point out in your book that the Mexican immigration issue is a very complicated one.

It is a race issue having to do with people from a poor southern neighbor. But as you point out, a lot of the reason the Mexicans are coming here is they've lost jobs due to NAFTA, which was a bipartisan bill promoted under the Clinton Administration. Big corporations came in to take over the agricultural industry in Mexico. Many of the small farmers were squeezed out, particularly in areas like the Yucatan peninsula, so those people have no jobs now. They're trying to come up to the United States.

The American government -- and by that, I mean both the Democrats and Republicans at a senior level -- have different motives for this sort of bipartisan agreement that Bush is pushing now. He wants low-cost labor for industry and that's why he's pushing it. There are people in the Democratic Party -- and I think to a certain degree even in the Bush Executive Branch -- who understand that if you deported all the Mexicans, you would probably have an implosion in Mexico, because tens of billions of dollars in salaries are sent back to support people in Mexico.

The economy might collapse in Mexico, were that not the case, because the only other two things that are keeping Mexico afloat are a diminishing oil industry and a growing drug industry -- which is another thing the U.S. doesn't clamp down too hard on. But you point out in your chapter that the sudden rise of this immigration scare is kind of another ruse to keep people divided while the powers-that-be are picking our pockets.

Melissa Rossi: It seems to be an issue that has made Lou Dobbs into a household name. I used to like Lou Dobbs. There was something so comforting when he would come on. I think he has a plain mesmerizing style when he's spouting perfectly incorrect numbers and encouraging racism.

There are some problems, and people are losing their jobs. And one of the reason is because the United States is not being as competitive as it can be, except in the defense industry. We need to get more competitive. And if you take out all the immigrants, I don't think it's only a calamity for the economy in Mexico. I think the bottom of the economy will come out in the U.S. because they're so important to the agricultural system.

Who's going to be picking the grapes for our fancy wine? Who are going to be the major workforce in the hotels? Who's going to be taking care of the nursing homes that we're constructing? They're a great component of that.

I understand people's xenophobia, particularly after 9/11. I understand that it exists. But there have been a couple of think tanks that have been spouting out very questionable numbers. The Heritage Foundation put out a report with figures that were just outrageous.

Lou Dobbs picked up on that, promoted that. It originally came, as far as I can tell, it all points back to an eye doctor in Michigan who was very worried about Latinos coming in and breeding too much. He had been very active in Zero Population Growth and Planned Parenthood. But anyway, he became very racist about it. He started a think tank that has been a lobbying force all over D.C.

And I think since 9/11, fighting immigration's become part of this culture of fear.

BuzzFlash: Well, immigration reform is another example of Republican framing. Again, I don't read anything about too many high-skilled Asians coming in for jobs. This is all centered on a fear of a Mexican invasion. And yet it's called immigration reform. Whenever you see something on television and they say immigration reform, they show a picture of a Mexican crossing the Rio Grande River or something. They do not show a Polish maid.

My point is that there's a racial component to this. Racism is hidden just below that phrase "immigration reform." But it is actually Stop the Mexicans From Coming Across the Border Reform. That's what the immigration bill is.

Melissa Rossi: And racism is, I think, an offshoot of a society under stress. I think, ever since 9/11, we've just been a little goofy. Obviously that was a traumatic experience that we never imagined could happen. But first we divided against the rest of the world. Now we're subdividing amongst ourselves. And as a result, we're not getting very many rational programs or ideas, or interesting or creative ways of solving things. We're not looking at creative problem-solving. We're just so frustrated, and we're into name-calling. I think it went down for awhile, or it went into the closet maybe, but with the Barack Obama candidacy, I think ABC News took off their viewer comments because every time they ran a piece about Barack Obama, it was so explosive.
That saddens me greatly because we are the melting pot. We're mutts, and now we have the nerve to shut the door because of racist issues. I find it alarming and depressing. I think there are concerns, and one of them is again that people are losing jobs. But I don't think they're losing them to the Mexicans.

BuzzFlash: The people with the billions, and the companies that are financing the Republican Party -- the corporatists -- are exporting jobs overseas. So the person middle-class person who has lost their blue collar factory job in Kansas because the factory was moved to China -- now they're blaming it on Mexicans.The job that went to China had nothing to do with Mexicans coming into the United States, but the right-wingers and the corporations use "immigration reform" as the scapegoat for the anger that's engendered when jobs are shipped overseas.

Melissa Rossi: Yes, I think that there is this level of frustration and anger that results in hostility, not only at the Mexicans but, pity the Muslim in this era, or an Arab in this era. I don't think they're all terrorists either, but I think the doors are shutting to the U.S.

BuzzFlash: We are an immigrant society. We have gained strength and energy from our immigrants. We have gained ideas, inventions. Much of the vitality of our society is due to immigration. And so this notion that somehow there's an American American, other than Native Americans, however clichéd that is, it's true. We are all immigrants to North America except for Native Americans. The vitality of this nation is, to a large part, owed to waves of immigration. And now we're suddenly saying that only "true Americans" should be here.

Melissa Rossi: Whatever true Americans are. I think we're going to have to modify our economy, and build new strengths again. Look at what has happened to the American car industry. It is alarming. And why? Because they didn't keep up. Because they refused to make their cars more efficient.

BuzzFlash: They killed the electric car.

Melissa Rossi: They refused to get off the internal combustion system. They didn't want to mess with that. They paid lobbyists hundreds of millions of dollars over the years, if not billions, to fight back challenges, and new fuel efficiency standards, and alternative energy sources. They didn't want to be regulated into it, and they didn't want to do it on their own.

Meanwhile the Asian companies were reading the writing on the wall. Better make the cars more efficient. Better look at some alternative fuels. But the big three were out there with their SUVs. I understand why Americans bought them. For crying out loud, Congress was giving them a tax credit until recently.

But the car manufacturers were making these cars and refusing to change with the times, to get real, and they'd figure out a system how to manipulate the legislators so that it would never come out of D.C., as far as a form of a regulation or a law. They screwed themselves, and they screwed us with them. And I think that's the problem with Americans, sometimes, is we get too complacent. We don't want to react. We don't want to change. We don't want to see what's going on and see the realities that are staring us in the face. I think the car industry is really a fine example of that.

BuzzFlash: Let's view our nation, for a moment, as kind of an individual. It's human nature that when someone achieves a lot in life or gets very wealthy, they start to rest on their laurels and become lazy. This doesn't always happen. But a lot of people get to a certain point and they're no longer being creative. Whatever got them to a level of recognition or a level of wealth, they stop their innovation and they rest on their laurels.

Have we, as a society, reached that point? In the post-World War II years, and then particularly with the collapse of the Soviet Union when we emerged ostensibly as the sole superpower, we started to believe that we just deserved all this because we were Americans. So to a certain degree, have we stopped innovating, and we just keep thinking we deserve to win the Iraq war because we're America and Americans don't lose a war? We deserve to have our jobs because we're America. We don't know why we're losing our jobs, but it's probably the Mexicans. We deserve to be wealthy, because we're Americans. We deserve to have the oil in Iraq, because we're Americans. And we've stopped at innovation and achievement -- the Thomas Edison type of thing -- that made us so great. Instead, we're kind of running around saying this is all due to us, because we are Caesar. We are Americans.

Melissa Rossi: I think you're hitting on something that's really important And it goes back to that complacency, too. We're at a transition point, where it's like, hmm, it's not quite so comfortable anymore.

But I think we do have it -- within the pool of people that are Americans, I think there is great creativity. But sometimes it takes a stress. It takes an uncomfortable situation. It takes -- I hate to say deprivation -- but something to come up with that creative "aha."

We are in a crisis, or we're almost at a crisis, so let's try something new. Let's invent -- let's look at some alternative forms of energy. Let's do make it more attractive for people to put solar panels on their roof for their water heating. Let's let's make it more attractive to buy cars that are running on alternative fuels or electricity.

Maybe this isn't all bad. Maybe this is all just part of the evolution of our society. We have been kicking back, and everything's been okay, and we've been able to ignore the rest of the world because we didn't need to notice it. They were sure noticing us.

But individuals can have an effect. And that's in this book, What Every American Should Know About Who's Really Running America, and the previous one, Who's Really Running the World? I highlight individuals and how they have had a tremendous effect -- good, bad, whatever. But one person, especially if they're organized and they work with others, can have a huge impact. I think people need to realize that.

Another thing -- we need more scientists and engineers coming out of the U.S. colleges. That's why there's a gap in this innovation, as well. I would really encourage students who have scientific abilities to go into the sciences and engineering.

BuzzFlash: Melissa Rossi, thank you very much.

Melissa Rossi: It's been so much fun talking to you.

BuzzFlash interview conducted by Mark Karlin.

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