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Science 20 December 2002:
Vol. 298. no. 5602, pp. 2308 - 2309
DOI: 10.1126/science.298.5602.2308b
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2004 BUDGET:
No Holiday Cheer for NIH, NSF

Jeffrey Mervis and Jocelyn Kaiser

Science has learned that the White House has settled on a 9% increase for the National Science Foundation (NSF), to roughly $5.4 billion. But that's no more than Congress wants to give NSF this year. The $23.3 billion National Institutes of Health (NIH) has received similarly Scrooge-like news for the holidays: The White House has offered less than a 1% hike, and NIH officials are appealing.

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