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"Just as we should have more women doing science, and more underrepresented minorities, we also should have more young people."

"How should we apply management techniques in a scientific context?"

"We have people from Stanford, and we have people with no degrees, and they all contribute equally." --Spectrolab's Nasser Karam

If there is an industry based on high-temperature superconductors, it's still in its infancy.

Research Corporation Vice President Michael Doyle, the study's principle author, discounts the gender productivity gap.

Biotech sales forces are small, elite, experienced, and capable of running a total business. Many start right after college with major pharmaceutical companies, which hire thousands of salespeople annually.

"We need to do a better job teaching math and science to our children"

"New technologies for the capture and storage of carbon in fossil fuels must be implemented on a fantastic scale."

There's plenty of scholarship out there, and pretty much all of it suggests that micromanaging knowledge workers--let alone whacking them over the head, pinching them on the *ss, and making them feel like dirt--is a bad idea.

"We take many things for granted when we work in a domestic situation," Haglund notes, "like access to the crime scene."

For most people, those symptoms are all too familiar: headache, achiness, tremulousness, diarrhea, loss of appetite, fatigue, and nausea--all of these are cited by Jeffrey G. Wiese and colleagues in a 2000 metastudy on hangovers published in the
Annals of Internal Medicine.

"The only way to find that out is to actually go out and do it, to be on the ground, increasing the range of information that we have, so that I can make it available to anybody at NSF or in the community, so that they can do great science in Africa." --Libby Lyons

Two words: Dana Scully.

The goal of NSF's summer institutes is to foster a generation of scientists that is comfortable in international settings.

We don't need more calls for "more scientists" from policy makers who haven't first looked hard at the balance between supply and demand.

"I have to say that everyone I worked with treated me with respect and was more than willing to help if I ran into a problem or listen to any ideas I had. I could not have asked for a better adviser than Ken Creager. He was helpful, supportive, resourceful, and just in general an all around nice guy."