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...only is such rapid interstellar trekking impossible, but the Star Trek characters' reliance on molecular transportation must also be taken with a grain of salt, skeptics...
...scientists making the trip back East. Just 10 years ago, returning to Asia would have entailed enormous personal sacrifice. But that was before the job market for scientists and engineers in the West turned sour and prospects in the East turned sweet. Singapore's six-year-old Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology finds it increasingly easy to attract promising young Ph.D.s with offers that start at $40,000 a year. Hong Kong's new University of Science and Technology, which awarded degrees to its first class of 576 undergraduates last month, can match the handsome faculty salaries offered...
...there is a danger in too narrow a focus on products and patents, warns Y.H. Tan, director of Singapore's Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology. While these may pay off in the short term, they are unlikely to yield the dazzling technological leaps that come from tackling fundamental problems in science. Tan's solution: continue supporting basic research -- like mapping the genes of the fugu, the poisonous blowfish prized by sushi chefs -- while at the same time prospecting for new drugs in Southeast Asia's flora and fauna for the British giant Glaxo...
Competition for openings in Asia's top research centers is keen. The Ph.D. he received from Indiana University wasn't good enough, jokes Huan Chang, now at Taiwan's Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences. "I had to go to Harvard as a postdoctoral fellow to get myself coated in a layer of gold." There is a frontier spirit in these fast-growing intellectual boom-towns that attracts job seekers with a taste for adventure. Calcutta-born Uttam Surana, an ambitious young biologist with a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona, turned down an offer from Germany's venerable...
...reason why there is an apparent division between the scientist and the social activist is that there is a stigma attached to scientists entering the public spotlight said. xDr. Jonathan L. Beckwith, American Cancer Society researches professor of microbiology and molecular genetics at Harvard Medical School...