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Science Career Magazine

Issue for February 18, 2005

Science Career Magazine
European Science Bytes
By  Next Wave Staff  - Funding, training, and job market news - Funding for exploratory engineering, award for communication in the life sciences, exchange programmes between France and South America, careers in investment banking and consultancy, more
Science Career Magazine
New Rules Ease Scientific Exchanges
By  Yudhijit Bhattacharjee  - The United States last week changed its visa rules to make it easier for foreign students and scientists working on sensitive technologies to reenter the country after an overseas trip. [Science News Repost]
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Severo Ochoa (1905-1993)
By  Next Wave Staff  - Severo Ochoa shared the 1959 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Arthur Kornberg for his role in establishing how hereditary information is translated from DNA to RNA. Ochoa was the first Hispanic American to receive the honor.
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Success Rates Squeezed As Budget Growth Slows
By  Jocelyn Kaiser  - The president's 2006 budget request last week contained dismal news for biomedical researchers - a mere 0.7% raise, to $28.8 billion, for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). And the fine print was just as bad. [Science News Repost]
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Caught in the Squeeze
By  Jeff Mervis  - Many U.S. science agencies would have to make do with less under the president's 2006 budget request, which aims to cut the deficit, boost military and antiterrorism spending, and make tax cuts permanent [Science News Repost]