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Summary:A weekly report memorandum for President Clinton from Neal Lane, Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). Lane informs Presdient Clinton of recent Senate budgets cuts to the Department of Energy's (DOE) science programs, calls by Senators Bond and Mikulski to double the budget of the National Science Foundation (NSF), elimination of funding for the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection, a recent conference on emerging infectious disease (EID) by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), studies of the Greenland ice sheet, and the discovery of evidence for the subatomic particle called "tau neutrino" at the DOE's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab).