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U.S. RESEARCH POLICY: NSF Warned Off Smithsonian Pact
Jeffrey Mervis
Responding to objections from an influential senator, the National Science Foundation has suspended plans to let scientists at the Smithsonian Institution compete equally with academic researchers for NSF grants.