IP: two sides of a future . (maybe the opening of Snow Crash was right) djf What's New for Feb 16, 2001]

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> WHAT'S NEW   Robert L. Park   Friday, 16 Feb 01   Washington, DC
>
> FLASH!  BUSH BUDGET SLASHES SCIENCE.  Today's Wall Street Journal
> announced that the Bush Administration plans to chop the science
> investment in order to make room for the $1.6 trillion tax cut.
>
>
> 3. DOCTORAL DEGREE DECLINE. For the first time in 14 years the
> total number of Ph.D.s awarded in the United States has gone
> down, dropping 3.6% between 1998 and 1999. Physical Sciences,
> Engineering and Mathematics led the slide, together down 8.5%,
> including a 12% reduction in degrees to non-U.S. citizens. The
> U.S. Commission on National Security for the 21st Century
> recently identified science and technology education as a
> national security imperative, stating "the word 'crisis' is much
> overused, but it is entirely appropriate here."



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