A Pew poll study released in July, 2013 showed that lawyers and journalists were ranked as the most despised in the U.S.Military professionals ranked at the top of the list while teachers came in second. Doctors, scientists and engineers were understandably also viewed positively.
One of the main reason protesters in Ukraine braved the cold winter for the past few months, which has lead to deadly clashes with riot police was that they sought to challenge President Yanukovch's increasingly authoritarian rule of law and his method of centralizing corruption.
In late January at the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on companies and investors from all over the world to use Israel as a global research and development center, pointing the uniqueness of the country's inherent strengths within science and technology.
With chants of "help Ukraine, help Ukraine" bellowing on this rainy Wednesday afternoon, Ukrainians in New York City gathered en masse at the Federal Reserve Bank on Wednesday.
