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offered, one tends to question both! He inherits 50 percent of the budget of the axed CRC. An ongoing research project, the Chandra X-ray satellite observatory, jointly operated with Harvard University, is cited as the kind of exemplary efforts he thinks the SI should stress.
Biological research while mentioned, would clearly suffer at the expense of that in the physical sciences. What O’Connor neglects to mention is that the US government is already preeminent and heavily invested in physical science research being done under NASA, USGS, NSF and the National Laboratories (Oak Ridge, Argonne, etc.) under DOE and other agencies including the DOD.
The policy of jettisoning a strong, world-renowned facility benefiting conservation efforts world wide in exchange for possible new insights into the action of natural X-rays seems a poor tradeoff. The Zoo director, Lucy Spelman outside of a terse memo chiefly echoing Small and O’Connor, appeals for increased scientific excel
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