Funding university research for that has been falling through the first Bush term and is now about half what it was in 2001. All told, anyway, America now ranks sixth in the world in the percentage of its wealth it spends on R&D. Yet the downward trend isnt solely the result of the parsimony of "the hick in the White House", as one motor mouth put it.
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