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- <title>
- June 29, 1992: Taking the Ax to a $8.3 Billion Gizmo
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- June 29, 1992 The Other Side of Ross Perot
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 34
- HEALTH & SCIENCE
- Taking the Ax to an $8.3 Billion Gizmo
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- <p>The House slashes 1993 funding for the superconducting
- supercollider
- </p>
- <p> The Secrets of the Universe may have to wait. Last week the
- House voted to ax most of next year's $483.7 million funding for
- the superconducting supercollider, designed to be the world's
- biggest atom smasher. The collider is meant to reveal the
- mysteries of the sub-sub-atomic world by crashing particles
- together inside an 86-km (54-mile) oval tunnel that will
- literally surround the town of Waxahachie, Texas. But it also
- bears the world's biggest price tag: $8.3 billion all told, and
- rising. That was too super for even the House.
- </p>
- <p> The Senate may differ, and the President certainly does,
- so the collider could make a comeback. But mixed feelings on
- the Hill could scare away the Japanese, whose hoped-for
- investment in the project has already proved a tough sell. And
- if it doesn't survive, the secrets of the universe could be
- unraveled anyway: a European lab is working on a collider that
- is nearly as powerful.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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