US budget yields scant research rises

Geoff Brumfiel & Tony Reichhardt

Key US science agencies held on to slim gains this month as Congress approved next year's budget. But they may lose these rises and more in an across-the-board 2006 spending cut to help pay for hurricane relief in the southern United States and for the ongoing war in Iraq.

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