Issues in Science and Technology articles from June 1995

Issues in Science and Technology archives from June 1995

The need for a Department of Science.
June 22, 1995... Combining scattered federal research efforts in a single agency would enhance the visibility and the coherence of science programs. As chairman of the House Committee on Science, I have the privilege of being able to glimpse the future. In...

Do we need a Department of Science?
June 22, 1995... No, the diversity of approaches and close links to agency missions of the current system should be preserved. In recent months, the notion of combining the nation's research and development (R&D) functions - wholly or in part - into a single...

U.S. investment in a peaceful Russia.
June 22, 1995... A little help can go a long way in moving skilled Russian workers out of weapons work and into productive civilian activities. What would we have been willing to pay, during the Cold War, for a weapon system that could eliminate all nuclear...

The perils of techno-globalism.
June 22, 1995... U.S. technology policy is in danger of being gutted by ideologues who ignore the enduring importance of national interest. Don't get me wrong. I admire ideology as much as anyone. It's an integral part of all public affairs. It enables us to...

U.S.-Russian cooperation in space: a good bet.
June 22, 1995... Despite the risks, the new partnership holds the key to resuming human spaceflight beyond Earth orbit. Cooperation between the United States and Russia in human space-flight holds the key to humanity's future exploration of space. It was 20...

Warning: information technology will transform the university.
June 22, 1995... Universities are in the information business, and technological developments are transforming that industry. University professors from a variety of disciplines have helped create the technologies that are forcing many U.S. industries to reinvent...

Roundtable: rethinking risk regulation.(Panel Discussion)
June 22, 1995... We have looked to science to provide certainty and discovered that it can't. "The Identification, Assessment, and Management of Environmental Risks" was the theme for this year at the Cecil and Ida Green Center for the Study of Science and...

Edging toward sanity on regulatory risk reform.
June 22, 1995... H. R. 1022 has been unfairly attacked; with some revisions, it should become law. Congress has never passed comprehensive legislation aimed at bringing more scientific rigor and economic efficiency to the regulation of health, safety, and...

Improving industry-government cooperative R&D.
June 22, 1995... The DOE labs are not a treasure chest of market-ready technologies, but they can help private firms. The February 1995 report of the Energy Secretary's Task Force on Alternative Futures for the Department of Energy (DOE) National Laboratories...

Reshaping graduate education.
June 22, 1995... Ph.D. training must change to prepare students for the jobs they are likely to find. In recent years, there has been growing alarm over the state of graduate education in the sciences. Graduates complain loudly of a lack of career...

A Moment on the Earth: The Coming Age of Environmental Optimism.
June 22, 1995... Just to establish my credentials (and my prejudices) at the outset: I have been a card-carrying member and a sometime employee of the environmental movement since the Dark Ages before Earth Day 1970, when the Sierra Club still counted its members...

Noah's Choice: The Future of Endangered Species.
June 22, 1995... Just to establish my credentials (and my prejudices) at the outset: I have been a card-carrying member and a sometime employee of the environmental movement since the Dark Ages before Earth Day 1970, when the Sierra Club still counted its members...

Losing Ground: American Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century.
June 22, 1995... Just to establish my credentials (and my prejudices) at the outset: I have been a card-carrying member and a sometime employee of the environmental movement since the Dark Ages before Earth Day 1970, when the Sierra Club still counted its members...

Footing the Bill for Superfund Cleanups.
June 22, 1995... Most people are shocked to discover that a multibillion-dollar governmental program has never been subjected to a careful program evaluation or cost-benefit analysis. This book by researchers affiliated with the Brookings Institution and...

Strong Medicine.
June 22, 1995... In Strong Medicine, George Halverson presents a lively, detailed, and easy-to-understand catalogue of what ails the U.S. health care industry and prescribes a healthy dose of competition as the cure. As the president of Health Partners, a...