Gore Lashes Out at Congress for Axing Research, Science Spending

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In the first of three speeches Vice President Al Gore delivered last week on the role of science and technology in American society, he criticized Congress for slashing spending on research, science, and technology.

"At the very moment global economic competition and global environmental degradation demands civilian research and the technologies it often produces, this Congress is proposing the sharpest cuts in nondefense research since America was fighting World War II," he said here at the annual meeting of the American Association for...