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...part, Ulrich is hopeful. “Material things will still be important, which is why curators at places like the Smithsonian are busy collecting contemporary objects. I recently saw in storage there a set of pacemakers in various sizes showing the evolution of that technology—and similar collections of birth-control pills, tampons, and soap!,” she wrote...
Thirty-two members of Congress, among them Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), signed on to a letter to OMB Director Mitchell E. Daniels Jr. condemning the cut in funding to the Smithsonian two weeks...
...tentative Bush administration budget would reduce funding to the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics by $20 million, according to Timken University Professor Irwin I. Shapiro, director of the center...
...proposed budget makes it through Congress, the center will bear the brunt of the total cut to the Smithsonian Institution, which is currently slated to be $37.5 million...
...funding is slated to be redirected from the Smithsonian to other scientific organizations, Shapiro said. Potential beneficiaries may include the National Science Foundation...