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Lawrence Livermore Lab On The Chopping Block?

Posted by chrisd on from the he-threated-me-in-the-real-world dept.

guttentag writes "According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Bush's Homeland Security plan calls for transferring $1.2 billion of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's $1.5 billion budget to a new Department of Homeland Security under Tom Ridge. However, the plan transfers only 4 percent of the lab's employees. Ridge's explanation of the numbers: "I cannot give you the kind of explanation you need to deal with that imbalance." LLNL funded and houses the ASCI White supercomputer, among other cool projects." While Livermore has an impressive research record, we would miss most the laser lab from Tron.

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  1. Re:partisan by j_w_d · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ...it's been seized upon and made front page news (particularly on the Left Coast) to make the Bush administration seem inept and disorganized.

    You mean they aren't?

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  2. Re:partisan by mike77 · · Score: 0, Redundant
    it's been seized upon and made front page news (particularly on the Left Coast) to make the Bush administration seem inept and disorganized.

    Not much work there, they are inept and disorganized. :)

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