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Science 21 May 2004:
Vol. 304. no. 5674, p. 1091
DOI: 10.1126/science.304.5674.1091c
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PARIS--Confounding the skeptics, the independent Bank of France has agreed to sell off some of its $40 billion gold reserve to fund French science (Science, 13 February, p. 939). Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin announced 14 May that the bank will funnel roughly $100 million worth of ingots into research next year and $200 million per year after that.

The cash will go to priority projects, including cancer and brain research, promising industrial projects, and incentives for young researchers to remain in France or return from abroad, says research minister François d'Aubert. Raffarin said he was inspired by a similar, but so far hypothetical, plan floated by German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder.




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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)