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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION: NIST Struggles to Escape the Knife
David Malakoff
Even as Arden Bement heads to the National Science Foundation as acting director, he's vowing to help shepherd his current agency, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, through one of its worst budget crises in years.