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Nature 445, 126 (11 January 2007) | doi:10.1038/445126a; Published online 10 January 2007

Competitive stumbling

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Promised investment in the physical sciences is held up in a US budget jam.

In his State of the Union Address last January, President George W. Bush announced an American Competitiveness Initiative, which included substantial increases in funding for the physical sciences as a means of securing US industrial competitiveness in the long term.