The United States has a settled arrangement for distributing its research budget around the country, and the same states have dominated it for decades. But, as Emma Marris discovers in Florida, the have-nots have had enough. Seen from the air, Florida's Palm Beach looks like paradise. There's the aquamarine sea, the sandy line of beach studded with palms, the pastel cul-de-sacs with their deep-blue squares. It is only as you descend that you realize that the squares aren't swimming pools, but plastic tarpaulins -- makeshift repairs after last summer's hurricane season. Welcome to the future home of Scripps Florida.
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