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US science is facing a period of flat federal funding from the Clinton administration in FY 1997. The FY 1997 budget promises a 3% increase for the science funding agencies and the restoration of and previously cancelled technology and environmental research programs. The Department of Energy is requesting a 2.4% and 2.7% increase in its energy research and physics programs respectively. The National Institutes of Health is asking for a 3.9% increase in funds to $12.4 billion.
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Energy secretary Bill Richardson revoked the plan to shut down the Bates Linear Accelerator which is operated by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). This has thrown the US Department of Energy's finely balanced $320 million budget of nuclear physics into turmoil, due to the extra $10 million required to keep the facility open. MIT wants to complete the Bates Large Acceptance Toroid (BLAST) experiment, studying the physics of magnetism in nuclei.
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The Howard Hughes Medical Institute is expected to maintain its leading role in biomedical research with its expansion program for 1997. A total of $450 million will be used for grants, research studies and the acquisition of additional investigators. These researchers will focus on areas such as electromicroscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance, neuroscience and bio-organic chemistry.
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