"American science in the next generation must, quite literally, double and redouble in size and strength." So said the President's Science Advisory Committee last fall, and it sounded reasonable enoughwithout a price tag. Last week the National Science Foundation, which promotes U.S. basic research and science education, produced the tag. The staggering price of scientific expansion over the next decade: more than $50 billion.
N.S.F.'s top goal is that "every young person who shows the desire and the capacity to become a scientist should be ensured the opportunity to do so." The nation evidently has plenty of potential scientists. On the basis...
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