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Article: Even Lawrence Berkeley lab might be up for grabs

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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

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