If we want young scientists to remain idealistic, then we need to figure out how to do a better job rewarding the things that really matter: discovery (often as part of a team) and solutions to society's most compelling problems.
Dementia disorders are one of the most compelling problems of social and public health.
In interviews with 30 registered voters around this city — in a retirement community, a middle-class neighborhood and downtown on the steps of a courthouse — almost half said that health care was the most compelling and worrisome problem the candidates needed to solve.
I don't think the rule of law is dead in the United States, but throughout our history military and national-security issues have presented the most compelling and difficult problems for the legal system.
We need a radical change to face the most compelling contemporary urban problems.
These are often the most compelling organisations tackling the hardest problems.
Many theorists thought supersymmetry had the most compelling answers to those unresolved problems, and most supersymmetric models predicted the Higgs mass to be in the narrow range of 115 to 130 GeV (a giga-electron-volt is a unit of energy or mass; 1 GeV is a bit more than a proton's mass).
The problem, of course, is that the most compelling stories may not involve the people with the most need.
The two previous problems notwithstanding, many have found the most compelling cases of chance without randomness to be situations in which there is a biased chance process.
Within these wicked problems may lie a company's most compelling and profitable driver: A global purpose to save the world.
It is not surprising that test has emerged as one of the most compelling anxiety-evoking stimuli, and thus has turned into a serious problem (Sarason, 1980; Spielberger & Vagg, 1995).
