SCIENCE POLICY:
Clinton Names Adviser, NSF Chief
Andrew Lawler
PHILADELPHIA--After more than a year of searching, President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore have settled on their new science adviser--National Science Foundation director Neal Lane--and on University of Maryland biologist Rita Colwell as his successor. The nominations put into place the last pieces of the Administration's R&D strategy, which includes a new emphasis on basic research underscored in a 1999 budget request released earlier this month that would give most science agencies a dramatic boost over the next 5 years.