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Research universities are facing a growing crisis as the supply of well-trained students continues to lag behind the increasing nationwide demand for scientific research, the director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) said yesterday.
Bloch also acknowledged that the federal government's support for science research has been insufficient. As the percentage of the American Gross National Product spent on research has stayed constant at about 2.8 percent in recent years, Japan's has doubled during the same period.
"If things begin to unravel too much [in East Germany], there will be a crackdown and government by decree and martial law," said Baird Professor of History Richard Pipes, a member of the National Security Council under former President Ronald W. Reagan.
"It's an economic view of morality," said Jim Chapin, former national director of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee. "If someone is drowning, you can charge them as much as you want to throw them a rope."
THE student health insurance program is ultimately doomed to fail because, just like the Catastrophic Health Care Act, it is at best an attempt to apply a Band-aid remedy to a national health care crisis.