Issues in Science and Technology articles from March 2001

Issues in Science and Technology archives from March 2001

OTA reconsidered.(U.S. Office of Technology Assessment)(Letter to the Editor)
March 22, 2001... While not arguing with the accuracy of Daryl E. Chubin's view of the positive contributions of the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) ("Filling the Policy Vacuum Created by OTA's Demise," Issues, Winter 2000-01), I would point out that the...

FROM THE HILL.(federal budget, research spending)
March 22, 2001... Bush budget outline leaves little room for research spending increases The fiscal year (FY) 2002 budget blueprint released by President Bush on February 28 may lack details, but the framework it sets out leaves little room for increases in...

Congress again considers "green" payments to farmers.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2001... In the Spring 1995 Issues, I argued that it was "Time to Green U.S. Farm Policy." A new comprehensive package of federal farm legislation was then being developed. Both the farm and the general economies were strong, and many Americans were...

Where's the Science?(Bush administration)
March 22, 2001... The Bush administration recently decided not to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide in spite of the fact that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has become increasingly firm in its view that the release of carbon dioxide by...

A Science and Technology Policy Focus for the Bush Administration.
March 22, 2001... With the administration of George W. Bush commencing under especially difficult political circumstances, careful consideration of science and technology (S&T) policy could well be relegated to the "later" category for months or even years to...

A Different Approach: Values Centered Estate Planning.
March 22, 2001... PART TWO In our first issue of Insight, we introduced the concept of Values Centered Estate Planning, an approach that integrates your fundamental ideals and values with your financial objectives to create a financial plan that does more...

Just Say Wait to Space Power.
March 22, 2001... The concept of space power has been receiving increased attention recently. For example, the Center for National Security Policy, a conservative advocacy group, has suggested that there is a need for "fresh thinking on the part of the new...

The New Three R's: Reinvestment, Reinvention, Responsibility.
March 22, 2001... As we enter the 21st century and a global knowledge-based economy, the United States has never been more free or full of opportunity than it is today. The extraordinary technological advances of our time have contributed in large part to the...

Searching for a National Energy Policy.(Statistical Data Included)
March 22, 2001... The United States and the world face a daunting array of energy-related challenges. We must work out how to provide, reliably and affordably, the supplies of fuel and electricity needed to sustain and build economic prosperity. We must limit...

A Short Honeymoon for Utility Deregulation.
March 22, 2001... During the more than 100 years from the inception of the electric utility industry in the latter part of the 19th century through 1995, the inflation-adjusted price of electricity in the United States dropped by about 85 percent, the U.S. power...

Science and Economics Prominent on EPA Agenda.
March 22, 2001... Although President Bush made very few campaign promises about the role of science in public policymaking, observers say that the incoming administration will likely enhance the role of risk assessment and economic analysis in its decisionmaking...

Transforming Environmental Regulation.
March 22, 2001... The new Bush administration has within its reach the tools to implement a new environmental agenda: one that will address serious problems beyond the reach of traditional regulatory programs and will reduce the costs of the nation's continuing...

Bolstering Private-Sector Environmental Management.
March 22, 2001... "We are ready to enter a new era of environmental policy," Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Christine Todd Whitman announced during confirmation bearings in January 2001. Noting that the country had moved beyond "command and...

Addiction Is a Brain Disease.
March 22, 2001... The United States is stuck in its drug abuse metaphors and in polarized arguments about them. Everyone has an opinion. One side insists that we must control supply, the other that we must reduce demand. People see addiction as either a disease...

Is Arms Control Dead?
March 22, 2001... Several prominent themes have emerged in the U.S. national security debate during the past few years: a trend toward unilateralism, a desire to be rid of the strictures of international conventions, and a quest for a more "realist" foreign...

Worrying efficiently.(Review)
March 22, 2001... The Ingenuity Gap, by Thomas Homer-Dixon, New York; Alfred A. Knopf, 2000, 480 pp. The Ingenuity Gap is about how to worry efficiently in the 21st century. Most people worry inefficiently, either with undifferentiated anxiety about an...

Constructing reality bit by bit.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, by Lawrence Lessig. New York: Basic Books, 1999, 297 pp. Lawrence Lessig's book Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace begins and ends with two key themes: that our world is increasingly governed by written...

Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.
March 22, 2001... As part of the International Geophysical Year (IGY) of 1957-58, a network of scientific stations was set up throughout Antarctica. The Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, established in November 1956 within 1,000 yards of the geographic South...