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Subject: Re: Re: Senator William Proxmire and The - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 26-Jul-84 07:37:36 EDT
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inmet!andrew    Jul 25 08:33:00 1984

> There is a darker side to the Golden Fleece awards.
> Proxmire sometimes villifies things that he doesn't understand,
> and projects that really might be decent basic research.

Yes... I recall several years ago where he gave his notorious "award" to
someone who was conducting a study of the sex life of a certain insect.
Apparantly WP is oblivious to the fact that disrupting the breeding cycle
is an important approach to pest control.  I think he got his ass sued off
over that one... at least I hope so!
 
Andrew W. Rogers		...{harpo|ihnp4|ima|esquire}!inmet!andrew