In a message dated 10/7/98 11:44:13 PM Central Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes: << With a 1998 budget of nearly $14 billion, the NIH is the nations largest single funder of biomedical research. >> My major problem with these folks is not the process, but a nagging feeling that people like Dr Abraham Lieberman are right when they say that many projects of "high scientific merit" are not being funded. Regards, WHH 55/19