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Article: Even Lawrence Berkeley lab might be up for grabs
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- December 27, 2003
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The bevy of universities, defense contractors and Beltway bandits
eyeing the University of California's operation of Los Alamos lab
aren't drawing the line there.
Now that Congress has thrown open two more UC-run labs to
competition, contractors aren't ruling out regime change at the first
place on the West Coast where academia and government joined in the
name of Big Science.
At a couple hundred acres and 1,250 scientists and engineers,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is tiny beside the giant
defense and energy labs that it spawned.
But the lab is entwined with UC's esteem and the intellectual base
of its first campus. It sits on UC land, and more than 200 of its
scientists enjoy ...