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Tenacity of purpose

机译：目的坚韧

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The 28 August issue of Nature carried an advertising 'highlight' on India, Five pages of paid advertisements, by some of our more prominent institutions announcing faculty openings and directorial positions, constituted this 'highlight'. The section contrasted sharply with a 'Spotlight on Singapore' which appeared in the 16 October issue, which carried a two-page preface highlighting the 'Biopolis of Asia', featuring a write-up on Singapore's biomedical research initiative. The page in the India spotlight that drew my attention was an attractively coloured advertisement which boldly proclaimed, Push Back the Horizon. The intriguing publicity blurb put out by the Survey of India had this to say: 'On 10 April 1802, in one of the most daring scientific quests known to humankind, Col. William Lambton began the longest measurement of the earth's surface. For the next fifty years, this inch-perfect survey of over 2400 km involved the most perilous of journeys, extremely complex mathematical equations, and the loss of more lives than in most contemporary wars'. In the true tradition of all government advertisements which attempt to highlight achievement, however distant, the photographs of ministers and administrators stared benignly at readers. Two centuries after he began his odyssey, William Lambton's portrait was curiously missing. His famous compatriot George Everest, who completed the 'Great Indian Arc of the Meridian' did not merit a mention, in an advertisement, which ironically seemed to celebrate an important phase in a scientific enterprise that 'significantly advanced our knowledge of the shape of the planet and laid the foundation of the science of geodesy'.
机译：8月28日的《自然》杂志在印度刊登了广告“亮点”，由我们一些较著名的机构宣布了教师职位和董事职位的五页付费广告构成了这一“亮点”。该部分与10月16日发行的“新加坡聚焦”形成鲜明对比，该报告有两页的序言突出强调了“亚洲生物城”，其中包括对新加坡生物医学研究计划的撰写。在印度的聚光灯下，引起我注意的页面是一个色彩艳丽的广告，该广告大胆地宣称为“推回地平线”。印度调查局发表的引人入胜的宣传短片是这样说的：“ 1802年4月10日，威廉·兰伯顿上校开始对人类的地表进行最长的测量，这是人类已知的最大胆的科学探索之一。在接下来的五十年中，这项对2400公里以上的完美测量涉及最危险的旅程，极其复杂的数学方程式以及比大多数现代战争都丧生更多的生命。在所有试图强调成就的政府广告的真实传统中，无论多么遥远，部长和行政人员的照片都善良地盯着读者。在开始冒险之旅两个世纪后，威廉·兰伯顿的肖像奇怪地消失了。他的著名同胞乔治·埃弗勒斯（George Everest）完成了“子午线的大印度弧”，在广告中没有提及任何东西，具有讽刺意味的是，这似乎是在庆祝科学事业的一个重要阶段，“显着提高了我们对子午线形状的认识并奠定了大地测量学的基础。

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