"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
telephone...
....as was suspected in recent weeks:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7765818.stm
This will further drive up the costs of the already way-over-budget
program.

No surprise. Other (smaller) programs will likely suffer because of this.
After all, the time and money for the overruns has to come from *somewhere*.

Jeff
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