WASHINGTON, DC—The news these days is full of the effects of the so-called "sequester," the mandatory, across-the-board 5% cut in federal funding for a wide range of government agencies. In response to the cuts affecting the National Institutes of Health (NIH), scientists and disease advocates have demonstrated here in Washington, with chants of "more hope, more progress, more life" resounding in the street. At universities across the country, meanwhile, "unease takes hold" as "administrators and professors wonder which projects will be trimmed or eliminated" and which staffers and students may need to be axed, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education (Subscription required). Indeed, the Chronicle reports, foreboding has built for months as it became increasingly apparent that, despite the best efforts of academic science's lobbying operation, the cuts would actually happen.

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