Boston Edison did not have a company jet, or, more important, another reactor to draw experts from.
Mr. Holbrooke built a high-powered shop inside the State Department, drawing experts from nine other agencies, from the Agriculture Department to the Central Intelligence Agency.
Equally important is the basic act of drawing experts from diverse disciplines around a single table to "learn one another's languages," said Kim Knowlton, a senior scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council and assistant clinical professor at Columbia University.
After the war, Dr. Lambertsen joined the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, where he converted an abandoned altitude chamber into a laboratory that was soon drawing experts and students interested in undersea and aerospace environmental physiology.
The most high-profile program within the last few years is the central government's Thousand Talents program, which aims to draw experts in science, technology, and entrepreneurship to the country (and is the program supporting the research of both Tsinghua's Pastor-Pareja and Fudan's Waxman).
The operation to free the boys, aged 11 to 16, and their 25-year-old soccer coach, has taken on huge proportions, drawing experts and volunteers from across the world.
Invitees who decline the invitation are replaced by other randomly drawn experts from the same expert pool.
An experienced Verdian who is also music director of the Teatro Regio in Turin, Mr. Noseda maintains a fine balance between fervor and gracefulness, forward movement and repose, and draws expert playing from the orchestra.
Bernice Berend Rose, who joined the Menil in 2007 as the chief curator of its new Drawings Institute, will lead the project, along with a group of scholars that includes Kate Ganz, a drawing expert, and Roberta Bernstein, an art historian who has written extensively about Mr. Johns.
