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Science 20 December 2002:
Vol. 298. no. 5602, p. 2308
DOI: 10.1126/science.298.5602.2308a
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RESEARCH FUNDING:
Italian Researchers Facing Lean Times

Alexander Hellemans

NAPLES--Italian researchers are reeling this week after legislators approved a 2003 budget that could shutter some national facilities and threaten Italy's contributions to major international research centers. The parliamentary vote came after days of heated debate in the Senate, punctuated by outraged researchers demonstrating noisily outside and a mass resignation by university rectors, who say that a written commitment to adequate funding is the only thing that will bring them back. No agreement had been reached as Science went to press, however.

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