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Science foundation's funding eyed amid porn claims (AP)

 
AP - The ranking GOP member of the Senate Finance Committee wants Congress to reconsider new funding to the National Science Foundation amid allegations that top staffers spent long stretches of their day surfing the Internet for pornography. (link)

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