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Loose Lips Sink Budgets, Says Massey Out Of The Ashes Of The Space Station No Silly Questions, Please Too Much Of A Good Thing With Congress once again poised to cut out start-up funds for the proposed $211 million Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO), NSF Director Walter Massey is blaming scientists for helping to wield the knife. In March, astrophysicist Tony Tyson of AT&T Bell Labs told the House science committee that LIGO won't be sensitive enough to measure

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Loose Lips Sink Budgets, Says Massey

Out Of The Ashes Of The Space Station

No Silly Questions, Please

Too Much Of A Good Thing

With Congress once again poised to cut out start-up funds for the proposed $211 million Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO), NSF Director Walter Massey is blaming scientists for helping to wield the knife. In March, astrophysicist Tony Tyson of AT&T Bell Labs told the House science committee that LIGO won't be sensitive enough to measure the gravity waves that it is looking for, and that the money would be better spent on small-science projects. And last month the authorization panel voted to remove the $23 million requested for the LIGO project from NSF's 1992 budget. "Please go back and tell your colleagues that this type of behavior is not helpful," Massey said, fuming, at last month's meeting of the National Science Board. "And if ...

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