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These institutions have created new technologies and indeed
whole new fields of technology, as is illustrated by the new
field of genetic engineering. They attract some of the ablest
minds from all over the world. Their work is done in
cosmopolitan groups, and while individual researchers may come
and go, the research projects themselves continue in stable
institutions that can assemble the best academic talent that
exists worldwide in a given field. Research and teaching have
now become inextricably intertwined in the American research
university. From the educational point of view, a critical
mission of the university is to teach students how to solve
difficult problems at the research frontier. Such research
problems are difficult, because if they were not, they w