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Article: New U.S. Science Policy Drops Cold War Rationale
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- August 4, 1994
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WASHINGTON The Clinton administration Wednesday announced a new
national science policy that pledges to maintain "world leadership in
basic science, mathematics and engineering."
The new policy comes at a time when many researchers fear that
American science is in danger of losing its international preeminence
in science and technology.
It was the first such statement since the Carter presidency and
it moves away from what had been a major rationale for government
support of science for 50 years: winning the Cold War.
Instead, the new focus is on strengthening science to serve a
broad array of "core national interests" from improved health care
and a stronger economy to "ennobling the ...