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Mark Schlissel - Take the smartphone from your pocket and skip your flu vaccine. Get rid of the radar that guides our planes to safe landings and steers our soldiers away from landmines. While you’re at it, take down the “Now Hiring” sign from advanced manufacturing plants in places like Iowa, Kansas and Indiana, and take away that bike helmet from your kid. All of those innovations, and many more, came from university research funded by the federal government. From research that stops