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Issues in Science and Technology back issues
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Unburdening science.(FORUM)(Letter to the editor)
March 22, 2009... I resonate fully with the spirit and content of Shawn Lawrence Otto and Sheril Kirshenbaum's "Science on the Campaign Trail" (Issues Winter 2009). Science Debate 2008 was an unprecedented event that garnered substantial public attention and helped the campaigns hone their own policies....
Flood protection.(FORUM)(Letter to the editor)
March 22, 2009... "Restoring and Protecting Coastal Louisiana" by Gerald E. Galloway, Donald F. Boesch, and Robert R. Twilley (Issues, Winter 2009) should be required reading for every member of Congress and every member of the newly appointed presidential administration. It graphically outlines the drastic...
Regional climate change.(FORUM)(Letter to the editor)
March 22, 2009... In "Climate Change: Think Globally, Assess Regionally, Act Locally" (Issues, Winter 2009), Charles F. Kennel stresses the importance of empowering local leaders with better information about the climate at the regional level. He provides multiple evidence of the growing consensus that...
Military restructuring.(FORUM)(Letter to the editor)
March 22, 2009... "Restructuring the Military," by Lawrence J. Korb and Max A. Bergmann (Issues, Fall 2008), makes many excellent points about the need to match our military forces to the current and potential future threat environments. There is, how ever, a critical issue of threat anticipation and tailoring...
Obama cabinet picks vow to strengthen role of science.(FROM THE HILL)(Barack Obama)
March 22, 2009... Key members of President Obama's new cabinet are stressing the importance of science in developing policy as well as the need for scientific integrity and transparency in decisionmaking.
In one of his first speeches, Ken Salazar, the new Department staff that he would lead with "openness...