Grant suggested all were implicitly political because they represented Indigenous culture.
But new results from Bio-X affiliates Lisa Giocomo and Surya Ganguli and Bio-X Honorary Fellow Niru Maheswaranathan, supported by a Seed Grant, suggest the system is more complicated than anyone had guessed.
The EPA does not, as Hudson said, "want to stop you and I from grilling outside on our own property," nor does this grant suggest the agency is interested in "restricting our personal freedom".
And although the government said reactors would be closed after life spans of 40 years, it also said that exemptions could be granted, suggesting that the 2040 deadline was flexible.
At the same time, there was no difference across Ph.D.s in their low expectations of getting a faculty job or the difficulty of obtaining grants, suggesting that these factors do not explain why some lose interest while others remain highly interested in an academic career despite these challenges.
But the belief that he was taking his backbenchers for granted suggests otherwise.
Samuel T. Morison, a former staff attorney in the pardon office who left recently after 13 years, said the small-scale nature of the first round of grants suggested that the Obama administration would continue the "conservative" approach under Mr. Bush.
A glance at where, and for what, patents are nowadays being granted suggests that the locus of innovation has begun to move from telecoms, computing and e-commerce towards fresher pastures especially in genomics and nanotechnology.
The capital infusion granted to Daiei, as well as the strong likelihood that Mitsui Construction's request for debt waivers would be granted, suggests that Japan's system of convoy capitalism, in which banks are expected to buoy weak clients regardless of their future prospects for recovery, is still alive and well.
But does the number of patents granted suggest that the patent system is being gamed somehow by speculators wanting to cash in on the new "patent gold rush?" Hardly.
University-run "incubator" facilities providing space and various centralized services could also equip non-tenure-track scientists for independent research in the absence of large grants, suggested Christopher Espenshade, assistant professor of cell biology at Johns Hopkins University.
