Issues in Science and Technology articles from June 1994

Issues in Science and Technology archives from June 1994

Rethinking the Ph.D. (global political and economic realities mandate reassessment of science and engineering Ph.D. programs) (Perspectives)
June 22, 1994... Instead of cloning their faculties, science and engineering graduate schools should be preparing their students for a variety of possible roles. The upheaval in East-West relations and the rapid transformation of global markets have stimulated...

Keeping pace with the military-technological revolution.
June 22, 1994... Pentagon planners must reexamine all their systems, structures, and strategies to be ready for the battles of the future. President Clinton took office in the midst of a revolutionary shift in the international security environment. Reacting to...

Civic environmentalism. (solving environmental issues through informal local cooperative efforts)
June 22, 1994... Informal, local cooperative efforts should replace federal regulation in resolving many environmental controversies. This should have been the year when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) became a cabinet-level agency and when four...

Superfund reform: reducing risk through community choice.
June 22, 1994... Those living near hazardous-waste sites should be able to use some cleanup funds to address other environmental and public health problems. Perhaps no environmental program has caused more consternation than the Superfund, enacted by Congress...

Environment, economics, and national security. (10th Anniversary Colloquium) (Panel Discussion)
June 22, 1994... Issues in Science and Technology celebrated its 10th anniversary with a colloquium at the National Academy of Sciences on May 11, 1994. Two panels of experts were invited to speculate about what the critical policy issues will be for Issues'...

No time for deja vu: preserving competition in long-distance service. (Communications for a New Century)
June 22, 1994... To allow the Bell companies to offer long-distance service at this time would be to recreate the problems that existed with the AT&T monopoly. Many of the benefits enjoyed by telecommunications consumers as a result of regulatory reform that...

The time has come to open the long-distance market. (arguments supporting local Bell telephone companies' entry into long-distance services) (Communications for a New Century)
June 22, 1994... Allowing the local phone companies to provide long-distance service will increase competition, giving consumers more choice and lower prices. More than a decade ago, the breakup of the Bell System restructured the telephone industry, primarily...

Long-range consequences of interplanetary collisions.
June 22, 1994... As Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 races toward its mid-July collision with the planet Jupiter, considerable public attention is being focused on catastrophic impacts with the Earth--in the past and in the future. In recent years calls have been made to...

Looking at the Sun: The Rise of the New East Asian Economic and Political System.
June 22, 1994... This ambitious book sums up James Fallows's eight years of personal experience in Asia. Motivated by the idea that East Asia is the world's most dynamic region, Fallows set out to report on, understand, and be a part of this experience--one as...

The Cardinals of Capitol Hill: The Men and Women Who Control Government Spending.
June 22, 1994... If Willy Sutton came to Capitol Hill today, his first stops would be the House and Senate appropriations committees because that's where the money is. Seats on these committees confer great power and are fought over fiercely. Especially coveted...

America's Water: Federal Roles and Responsibilities.
June 22, 1994... No other natural resource stirs the passions of policy analysts as does fresh water. In the United States, particularly in the western, semiarid regions, water-resources policy has played a vital role in defining our relationship with the land,...

Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement.
June 22, 1994... In Forcing the Spring, Robert Gottlieb offers a revisionist history of American environmentalism as well as a blueprint for the movement's revitalization. Other histories of environmentalism, he contends, have concentrated unduly on the classical...

Reducing Nuclear Danger: The Road Away from the Brink.
June 22, 1994... This eminent trio of authors has written an important if, thus far, underappreciated book. It provides a remarkably cohesive and edifying perspective on the U.S.-Russian nuclear relationship, the global scourge of nuclear proliferation, and the...

Population Politics: The Choices that Shape Our Future.
June 22, 1994... Population Politics is another entry in the hotly contested debate over population growth: Is it a serious threat to our global standard of living or is it far more benign in its implications, perhaps even a positive influence on material...