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What's in a grant? It makes little sense to judge a grant mainly on the basis of the project. Because most of the time, the project isn't going to get done the way it's outlined in the grant. If you knew exactly what you'd be doing three to five years from now, you probably shouldn't be doing it. Because the results of what you do today may change what you should do tomorrow. Because of course it means that people will pile more and more stuff on you.
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It was the Vietnam War that led Martin Raff to a life in science. He was knee-deep in a neurology residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston when rumors suggested that America's draft law would soon change, making immigrant physicians like Raff eligible until age 35. "I would have been sent to Vietnam for sure," he says. Instead, Raff hotfooted it to Canada (he was born in Montreal), traded in his green card, and returned as an exchange visitor. The revised status excused Raff from military service- but it meant he had to leave the United States, when his neurolo...
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