Content area
Full Text
Congress left town this week after belatedly finishing its work on the 2005 federal budget. The $388 billion bill, which covers most of the government's domestic discretionary spending, is a turkey for most U.S. scientists. Details were still being worked out as Science went to press, however. Unless noted otherwise, the numbers below don't include an acrossthe-board cut of nearly 1% imposed to make the package more palatable to fiscal conservatives.
National Institutes of Health: In the second year of a sharp slowdown after a 5-year budget doubling, NIH received a 2% increase to $28.1 billion, according to figures in flux...