Judge's Ruling Frees $60-Million for Science Foundation's Network Grants

By LAWRENCE BIEMILLER

Ending a convoluted saga of taxation and misrepresentation, a federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that had blocked some $60-million worth of National Science Foundation technology grants, many of them intended to help universities pay for faster Internet connections.

The 10-month-old suit challenged the government's right to use money in an "Intellectual Infrastructure Fund" that had

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