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Science 12 February 1999:
Vol. 283. no. 5404, p. 917
DOI: 10.1126/science.283.5404.917a
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NUCLEAR PHYSICS:
MIT's Bates Lab Gets Sudden Reprieve

Jeffrey Mervis

Within minutes of the announcement last Monday that the Department of Energy's (DOE's) support for the Bates Linear Accelerator Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology would be ending, Energy Secretary Bill Richardson informed MIT President Charles Vest that the department had changed its mind. The secretary said the president's budget request for fiscal year 2000 would be amended to continue support for the facility, including funds for a new detector to study the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei. It is not clear, however, where DOE will find the money in a budget that holds funding for high-energy and nuclear physics essentially steady, and scientists say it would be a mistake to take it out of existing programs.

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