Victoria DuBois, Chapter 4, Question 6

The part of Chapter 4 that I found most interesting was on page 86 as Wheelan talked about the U.S. building a high speed particle accelerator. What I found most interesting was the fact that the government had the choice between landing the project at a major federal laboratory in Illinos or to build a lab in Texas. Instead of making the less exspensive decision by locating the project where a lab was already available, the government decided to spend money on building a new lab so that the project could be located in Texas mainly because Bush was president at the time and that was his home state. So the government wasted about a billion dollars on building a new lab for a project that they later just abandoned.