WHAT'S NEW, 23 Feb 01 Robert L. Park Washington, DC 1. TIME WARP. A western governor comes to town vowing to cut taxes, pump up defense, slash basic research and build a missile defense system. That was Ronald Reagan's agenda twenty years ago, and it appears to be George W's today. Agency heads are still haggling with OMB, but here's the latest word on science budgets: DOE down 5%, NASA science down 5%, DOD 6.1-6.3 flat, ATP eliminated and NIST core programs flat. The big physical science winner would be NSF, up all of 0-1%. A lone exception, NIH would rise 15%. WN readers take note: "balanced portfolio" is no longer in the White House lexicon. To save money, one policy maker has suggested closing the NIST Boulder lab and moving the staff to Gaithersburg. WN is taking bets on how many would move. THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY (Note: Opinions are the author's and are not necessarily shared by the APS, but they should be.)
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