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MAKE OR BREAK In the lead story of our January/February package on advanced manufacturing ("Can We Manufacture Tomorrow's Breakthroughs?"), TR's editor, David Rotman, suggested that America's diminished role in manufacturing was bad news for innovation everywhere. The article had readers scrambling to prescribe remedies—and lay the blame.James Eubanks of Trenton, North Carolina, said one culprit was the American expectation of easy access to cheap goods: "One big reason for the decline of American manufacturing is the ignorance and apathy of bargain-loving Americans who know the price of a given thing but not necessarily its value.