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Cardiovascular Research 1999 43(2):268-273; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(99)00133-9
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Copyright © 1999, European Society of Cardiology

A vicious backhand

Karl T Weber

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Scientists and physicians from around the globe were drawn to scientific sessions held in Chicago in the fall of 1997. Prospects for an excellent learning experience were high. For Theodore Conrad, the meeting also offered an opportunity to meet with former post-doctoral trainees. Over dinner that evening he would dine with a contingent from South America: Jorge and Eduardo from Santiago, and Clovis and Felix from Sao Paolo. There would be much to discuss since they last had seen one another.

Seated in the restaurant of the headquarters hotel, Theodore listened with pride to their narration of scholarship achieved against a backdrop of tribulations not unlike those he would have expected in initiating basic and applied research studies in the States. But in addition, he learned about challenges of a kind quite unfamiliar to him. Issues, for example, related to a nation’s political and military infrastructure and their impact on . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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