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News & Views item - June 2008 |
Science
Takes a Congressional Hit in the US, Bob Park Has His Say. (June
28, 2008)
The
professor of Physics at the University of Maryland, Bob Park, in 1983 was
recruited to open a Washington Office of the American Physical Society. In 2003
he returned to the University of Maryland full time but continues his weekly
online column
What's New.
A segment from this week's column:
The feeble position of science in America today was evident in the $186 billion supplemental war spending bill approved by the House last week. The last hope for those science agencies devastated by the appropriation, the supplemental bill that went to the Senate included only $400M for science, less than half what was sought. The Senate, which previously approved three times that, is expected to accept the House figure. By now thoroughly domesticated, the science community meekly expressed its gratitude.