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Billion dollar bungle 'loses' US tech lab
By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco
Posted: 12/06/2002 at 11:33 GMT
If any more proof were needed that the most powerful nation on earth is now
governed by a junta of panic-stricken, innumerate provincial nitwits, consider this.
For fifty years Lawrence Livermore Laboratories in California has earned the
respect of scientists around the world, pioneering ground-breaking research. It's a
nuke lab for sure, but the expertise has extended beyond defense into biotech and
other fields, and provides a friendly host to open source, distributed computing and
file system work, today.
Or at least it did, before last week's dramatic review of 'Homeland Defense'
priorities. This magicked the Labs out of existence. The reshuffle assigned most of
the Labs budget over to a new department, but took only four per cent of the staff
with it, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. Which effectively put a lightening bolt
into the Labs' research work: for after the reshuffle, and sans humans, it would have
little reason to exist.
Reporters questioned the administration on the sudden disappearance of one of one
of America's crown jewels:
"I cannot give you the kind of explanation you need to deal with that imbalance,"
Tom Ridge, placeman in charge of the re-org, told the Chronicle.
He later admitted that it might be a mis-print. A billion dollar mis- print.
Officials at the Labs declined to comment. As well they might, for with a sneeze
here or a cough there, fifty years of research could go up in smoke.
Remind us again. Who are the bad guys? ®
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