November 11, 2005

Singapore's Regeneration

By MARTHA ANN OVERLAND

With an open checkbook, the tiny city-state draws top scientists

Cao Tong, a professor at the National University of Singapore, admits that he is essentially a pawn of the government. And he could not be more thrilled.

"Nowhere else could I have just walked in and started a program from ground zero," says Dr. Cao, a professor of dentistry who was awarded a half-million-dollar grant to back his oral-tissue-regeneration project. "Within one year I was set up."

The young

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