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The physics department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepted only 25 graduate students this year, down from 50 in years past. Several job candidates turned down the prestigious school for work in other countries where science funding is considered more stable. And two MIT contracts with NASA -- that PhD candidates rely on to pay for their work -- were trimmed by 91 percent.

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Last year, two researchers turned down job offers from MIT's physics department and went to work instead in Europe, where funding is less of a struggle.

''It was quite striking," said Marc Kastner, who heads the department. ''It used to be that a position at MIT was the best in the world, and now people are turning us down."

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/health_science/articles/2006/01/23/young_scientists_hit_the_hardest_as_us_funding_falls/