…Today there are hundreds of educational institutions in the region, three institutes and several consultation bureaux from institutions of higher education in the capital and Leningrad. But their work is impaired by a shortage of scientific staff, the poorly developed material base and scanty provision for publications. Scientists and pedagogues who are as they say "as stubborn as Lomonosov" are working to solve these problems.
A notable fact about federal agency research budgets is that most of them came through the first full year of Gramm-Rudman with very few wounds, and the only plausible explanation for that good fortune is the mounting deification of research as indispensable medicine for the economy.
It's been a long time since Congressional clowns have sought publicity by the formerly surefire tactic of ridiculing research titles. Given the expectations that the public has developed for research, that old ploy would today be regarded as blasphemous. ...
