A Science Budget of Choices and Chances

摘要

Budgets are about choices, U.S. presidential science adviser John Marburger told reporters this week as he explained what his boss is asking Congress to support in 2009. And what President George W Bush has chosen for science funding is exactly what he has requested for the past few years: Give a big boost to agencies that support the physical sciences, flat-line basic biomedical research, and put NASA between a rock and a hard place.