TOO MANY EYES ON THE PRIZE
by James Glanz
New York Times Magazine
October 8, 2000, Sunday
Magazine Desk, 1101 words
http://partners.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/20001008mag-wwln.html
In spite of its deep obsession with the spinoffs of technical
research,
from cell phones to DNA fingerprinting, the global culture operates
with
only the vaguest idea of where all this fascinating stuff comes
from...How
unromantic, then, that as both science and the Nobels reach new
heights of
influence, the correspondence between them may be unraveling.
The reasons
for their divergence have to do mostly with the many ways in
which science
has morphed in the last few decades.
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