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...spiral staircase. Each floor features Robin's quirky flea-market finds, including a Turkish glass chandelier, armchairs covered in Moroccan brocade, and 1950s pottery. Appropriately, Ciocco calls the new salon the "boudoir of Paris." She says she agreed to the venture out of her infinite respect for Robin's research???adding that his products offer "a complex alchemy" for being effective and being nutritious to the scalp and hair...
Deserving though the biologists may be, their new role raises a real concern. Traditionally, university researchers toil in their labs, usually at the taxpayers' expense, doing basic research???that is, research promising fresh insights into the fundamental truths of nature, regardless of the prospect of immediate payoffs. The bioengineering firms, by contrast, must set their sights on quick returns. Will the new alliance between industry and academia destroy the old objective "purity" of science? Will scientists still freely exchange information or lab specimens, as they have often done in the past, if they know a colleague works for a rival...
...even when science was attracting little popular interest, plenty was going on. Investigators were making enormous strides, especially those involved in basic research???inquiries with no immediate practical payoff. Some researchers were probing the inner secrets of the atomic nucleus; others, like Sagan himself, looked out to the mysteries of the planets and the stars. Still others discovered how the earth's surface, found to be unexpectedly mobile, has been shaped and reshaped over the ages. Perhaps most startling of all were the explorations on the very frontiers of life. For the first time, scientists were beginning to understand...
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