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Science 19 January 2001:
Vol. 291. no. 5503, p. 415
DOI: 10.1126/science.291.5503.415
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TAIWAN:
Political Spat Delays Funding for Academy

Dennis Normile

TOKYO--Lee Yuan-tseh, the Nobel Prize-winning president of Taiwan's Academia Sinica, is paying a price for his political activism. Opponents of Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian, to whom Lee gave a pivotal endorsement just before last spring's election, have taken out their unhappiness with Lee by withholding legislative approval of Academia Sinica's 2001 budget. The move has raised questions about whether partisan politics will hobble Taiwan's premier collection of research institutes.

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