$54.5 million
Amount Mitt Romney has raised for his presidential campaign as of Jan. 31, including super PAC funding
$44.3 million
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Amount Barack Obama has raised for his reelection as of Jan. 31, including super PAC funding
$30.5 million
Amount the National Cancer Institute spent in 2010 on esophageal cancer research
$19.6 million
Amount the National Science Foundation requested in 2011 for the Gemini Observatory, among the most powerful telescopes in the world
$18 million
What the NSF spent in 2010 to fund the Large Hadron Collider
$14 million
Estimated amount the National Institutes of Health spent in 2011 funding gene therapy clinical trials
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