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Dear Colleagues, Science magazine has an article in its "ScienceInsider" column related to the recent HEPAP meeting. The article's main emphasis is on plans to run the Tevatron in 2011. However, it had the following to say about the ILC: " Brinkman, who took over the $4.9 billion science office in late June, also had some harsh words for advocates of the International Linear Collider, a 30-kilometer-long straight-shot particle smasher that would study in detail the new particles and phenomena physicists hope to glimpse at the LHC. "With all the contingencies, you're talking about $20 billion. In my opinion, that price pushes it way out into the future, and onto the backburner." But Brinkman still sees a role for Fermilab, which is currently developing plans for new accelerators to come after the Tevatron shuts down, including an intense proton source in the near future. "I'd like to see Fermilab do something with a muon accelerator. That would be something novel, rather than spending time beating our brains out building the next biggest accelerator." Such a project would be extremely ambitious, however, as it would require collecting, accelerating, and colliding particles with a lifetime of only fraction of a second. " The full article can be found online at: http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/its-on-god-part.html Sincerely, Norman Graf