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Published online 2 April 2008 | Nature 452, 528-529 (2008) | doi:10.1038/452528a
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Portugal: Navigating new waters
Portugal's spending on research is near the lowest in western Europe. Can a single-minded lady with half a billion euros change things, asks Alison Abbott.
Three years ago, everyone seemed to want neuroscientist Zachery Mainen. Janelia Farm Research Center, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's prestigious new hub in Ashburn, Virginia, had just made a generous offer to recruit him and his frontier studies on decision-making.
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