Coming attraction: NSF rejects MIT, picks Florida State for magnet lab.

Reports on the National Science Foundation's (NSF) selection of Florida State University (FSU) as the site of a new national lab for high-magnetic-field technology, which will be known as the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. NSF rejection of the proposal from MIT to upgrade its Bitter Lab where the fractional quantum Hall effect was discovered; Amount of the grant Florida State will receive; Design of the NSF contest under Erich Bloch, the agency's director; Seitz-Richardson report recommendations for MIT; FSU's commitment to magnet lab; Plans to stay in budget; Presentations to NSF; MIT reaction to the selection of FSU.