September 8, 2006
Bills to Train More Scientists Go Down to the Wire
Congress mulls modest increases in spending, but much of the money may go to schools, not colleges
It's been almost a year since university and business leaders warned, in an influential National Academies report, that the United States faced a serious shortage of scientists and engineers that threatened the country's ability to compete.
Some observers had compared the urgency for action to that facing the United States after the Soviet Union launched Sputnik in 1957. But unlike
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