President Barack Obama's proposed FY2010 budget contains a lot of winners, and a
few losers as well. For a change, the physical sciences, especially basic
research, are no longer treated like a stepchild. It is finally getting some
needed boosts in funding after remaining either flat, or reduced funding over
the past decade.

A summary of the budget for the physical sciences can be found here:

http://blogs.physicstoday.org/politics/2009/05/winners-and-losers-for-science.ht\
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Of course, this hasn't been debated and picked over by the US House of
Representatives and Senate. So no one is certainly counting their chickens at
this point.

Zz.