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President George Bush's State of the Union address last week included enough of the right things to pass muster, but it remains to be seen whether his recipes will work, now and in the more distant future.
Small-scale industrial research in Japan stands out for its pursuit of excellence and for its willingness to devote time to fundamental investigations—if only to show customers what they might also achieve.
