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A Threat So Big, Academics Try Collaboration

By CLAUDIA H. DEUTSCH, December 25, 2007

It is a basic tenet of university research: Economists conduct joint studies, chemists join forces in the laboratory, political scientists share ideas about other cultures — but rarely do the researchers cross disciplinary lines.  The political landscape of academia, combined with the fight for grant money, has always fostered competition far more than collaboration.

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