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LIGO Director Takes The Cosmic View Have A Heart, Johns Hopkins Data Confounded By Changing Cages Another Quantum Leap Forward See Rifkin Run NSF's big- gest new construction project--the proposed Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory--has fallen victim to Congress' 1991 budget axe. The observatory is meant to detect elusive gravity waves from the far reaches of space, and LIGO's director, Caltech physicist Rochus Vogt, says that he understands that sometimes, especially w

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LIGO Director Takes The Cosmic View

Have A Heart, Johns Hopkins

Data Confounded By Changing Cages

Another Quantum Leap Forward

See Rifkin Run

NSF's big- gest new construction project--the proposed Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory--has fallen victim to Congress' 1991 budget axe. The observatory is meant to detect elusive gravity waves from the far reaches of space, and LIGO's director, Caltech physicist Rochus Vogt, says that he understands that sometimes, especially when it comes to the budget process, heaven can wait. "I'm not panicky," he says about the $47 million project. "It's rare to get it [congressional approval] the first time around. I promise you that I'll be back next year, and I'll be even more persistent this time around."

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