University of Hartford archeologist Richard Freund directed the research team.

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If the success rate of directed research is very low, though, it is true that the more we search, the more likely we are to find things "by accident, " outside the original plan.

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Only a disproportionately minute number of discoveries traditionally came from directed academic research.

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Irene Rich, director of congressionally directed medical research for the Army.

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