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Maybe It Should Be General Healy Retirements Not Seen As Hurting NASA Not Now Dear, I Have A Political Headache The High Cost Of Outreach Mixed News on NSF Funding Trends President Bush came to NIH last month to swear in the agency's new director, Bernadine Healy. While the occasion was entirely ceremonial--she took office April 9--Healy used it to make a characteristically bold statement about NIH's mission. Referring to its mandate to improve the nation's health, Healy declared that

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President Bush came to NIH last month to swear in the agency's new director, Bernadine Healy. While the occasion was entirely ceremonial--she took office April 9--Healy used it to make a characteristically bold statement about NIH's mission. Referring to its mandate to improve the nation's health, Healy declared that "NIH and the medical research community must hurry. . . . For us there are many wars yet to be won, and each day is our own Operation Bethesda Storm."

NASA has plenty to worry about these days, including trying to shoehorn a $40 billion space station into its budget without gutting its science programs. But the fact that 30 percent of its work force is ...

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