Bush Research Budget Again Focuses on Physical Sciences

President Bush's budget for scientific research in the 2008 fiscal year would continue to carry out his plan, first announced a year ago, to double federal funds for agencies supporting physical-sciences research over a decade.

But compared with the likely level in 2007, his budget would cut funds for the National Institutes of Health, the largest source of money for academic research, a move critics quickly called shortsighted.

The biggest beneficiaries of Mr. Bush's plan for

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