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The U.S. is the mecca of biotech. Most top companies in the field are based here. Government research budgets in biology are immense and growing. Universities compete to attract great professors. Students flock to their courses. And once they're armed with graduate degrees, they can count on landing a job in the industry. .

Jaime Chaparro was ready to learn English when he found the Jamaica Plain Community Centers Adult Learning Program at English High School more than six months ago.

The program offered free English classes, but with a catch -- a long wait ing list that would take years to slog through. The key for him, though, was the program was offering a new distance learning English class, a pilot program funded by the public-private venture, English for New Bostonians .