Federal FIle: Omissions; Death or bowling?

By BY Robert C. Johnston & JULIE A. MILLER

Rachel Mason, a senior at Framingham High School, cheered President Clinton last fall as he signed the Improving America's Schools Act at the Massachusetts school. Weeks later, she was named one of 40 state semifinalists in the National Science Scholars program.

But in March, a letter from the Education Department informed her that the program had been canceled by the bill.

"I don't know if I should laugh or cry," she told the Boston Globe .