IP: ACADEMIC PORK GOES UP AS SCIENCE BUDGET GOES DOWN. from Whats New (Physics)

[David Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

3. BUDGET: ACADEMIC PORK GOES UP AS SCIENCE BUDGET GOES DOWN.
What is going on in the House of Representatives?  As former APS
President D. Allan Bromley pointed out in a Washington Post op-ed
on Thursday, House appropriators have slashed NASA science $678M;
science at DOE is cut by $116M; and the NSF budget is $275M below
the president's request.  As if that weren't enough, a front page
story in the New York Times on Tuesday, picking up on a WN story
(WN 6 Aug 99), points out that a lot of what remains is earmarked
for projects in the home districts of the appropriators without
benefit of proposal submission or peer review.