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National Science Foundation: Second Merit Review Criterion Summary
1,088 words, approx. 4 pages In the early twenty-first century, science finds itself caught in a dilemma that is arguably of its own making: Its very success in terms of understanding and controlling nature means that it has given birth to powers that transcend the traditional...
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National Science Foundation Summary
3,557 words, approx. 12 pages The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is a federal independent (non-cabinet) agency, established by the National Science Foundation Act of 1950, as amended, and related legislation, passed by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by the president....
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National Science Foundation Information
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 The National Science Foundation (NSF) is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National Institutes of Health. With an...




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Illinois to get fastest supercomputer
8/9/2007: 675 words, approx. 2 pages By 2011, the University of Illinois should be the home of the world's fastest supercomputer.The National Science Board on Wednesday gave the National Science Foundation the OK to spend $208 million to build the computer at the university's National Center for Supercomputing Applications in Urbana....
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Univ. of Wash. gets $2.2M to study ocean
5/17/2007: 323 words, approx. 1 pages The University of Washington has received $2.2 million to plan an ambitious underwater research facility to study the ocean floor off the coast of Washington and Oregon.Scientists say it will be the world's first ocean observatory to span a tectonic plate, a huge section of...
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Cuts threaten world's largest telescope
6/1/2007: 346 words, approx. 1 pages Engineers will travel to this Puerto Rican coastal town in coming weeks to study whether to shut down the world's largest radio telescope, which was featured in the movie "Contact" but now faces steep budget cuts, observatory officials said Thursday.Opened in 1963, the Arecibo telescope,...
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Feds eye polar contract in Stevens probe
8/16/2007: 321 words, approx. 1 pages Federal authorities investigating Sen. Ted Stevens have turned their attention toward a federal contract that made millions of dollars for one of the senator's friends, a wealthy Alaska oil field contractor.The Justice Department recently asked the National Science Foundation for records related to VECO Inc.,...


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