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Science Career Magazine

Issue for August 11, 2000

Science Career Magazine
What's Up Doc (or wanna-be doc)?
By  Kirstie Urquhart  - B eing an early career scientist in the UK today certainly isn't all doom and gloom. But it ain't a bed of roses either. Eavesdrop in any university science department coffee room and there's a good chance you'll hear a bunch of postdocs and PhD
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Entrepreneurship--The Liberal Arts of Business Education
By  William D. Bygrave  - Germany needs more entrepreneurs. But while recent surveys agree that 25% to 30% of young scientists have good chances for creating a start-up, only 5% currently dare to take this step. In our ongoing series, Next Wave Germany and the Berlin Institute of Entrepreneurship have
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Balancing Biomedicine's Postdoc Exchange Rate
By  Torsten Wiesel  - This article appears in the 11 August issue of Science , p.867 W hen I came to the United States from Sweden over 40 years ago to
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New Impulses for European Plant Genome Research
By  Robert Metzke  - G ermany and France plan to intensify their collaboration in the field of plant genome research (PGR). New research funding programs in both countries are accelerating Europe's research in a field that is expected to lead to breakthroughs in agriculture, pharmaceutical and environmental sciences, and
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Get By With a Little Help From Your Friends
By  David Bradley  - E ven if your supervisor is not the stereotypical ageing white male, he or she may not always be your best 'learning assistant.' Mentoring may traditionally be one of the roles of your research supervisor, but, whether you're having problems with your research or facing