Issues in Science and Technology articles from September 1993

Issues in Science and Technology archives from September 1993

Performance goals for science: a proposal. (Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy)(Perspectives)
September 22, 1993... The Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy has proposed a new framework for setting priorities among the areas of basic science that compete for federal funds. As chairman of COSEPUP--a joint committee of the National Academies...

Takings policy: property rights and wrongs. (US property rights movement)(Perspectives)
September 22, 1993... Since the early 1970s, local, state, and federal governments across the United States have enacted a host of environmental protection laws. On the federal level alone, such laws include the Clean Air and Clean Water acts, the Endangered Species...

The quixotic quest for chemical-free farming.
September 22, 1993... In the face of rising pressure from consumers and environmentalists, the Clinton administration recently unveiled a package of proposals aimed at reforming longstanding regulatory policies governing the use of synthetic chemical pesticides in...

What companies want from the federal labs. (laboratories)
September 22, 1993... Many recent studies, reports, and congressional bills prescribe a new purpose for this country's federal laboratories. They maintain that the new customer of the federal labs should be U.S. industry and that the labs' new mission should be...

Roundtable: the human genome project. (forum at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center on May 6, 1993) (Transcript)
September 22, 1993... The mapping of the human genome, described as the most ambitious undertaking in the history of biology, has the power to change our understanding of life at its most basic level. Scientists working on the Human Genome Project, an international...

Telecommunications regulation: the beginning of the end. (US)(Issues in Focus: Communications for a New Century)
September 22, 1993... The telecommunications industry is in a period of enormous transition. The world that was dominated by a highly regulated phone monopoly and consisted of numerous distinct communications sectors no longer exists. The world of a fully...

A legislative agenda for telecommunications. (Issues in Focus: Communications for a New Century)
September 22, 1993... Federal policy must support the transition to an integrated communications and information infrastructure. Recent headlines tell an exciting story in the communications industry. AT&T Buys McCaw. Time Warner Forms Partnership with U S West....

Charting a course for cooperation in space. (international cooperation)
September 22, 1993... Writing in Issues five years ago ("Leadership through Cooperation," Summer 1988), I suggested that "across-the-board U.S. preeminence [in space] is no longer a realistic aspiration," and that "given the realities in which the U.S. space program...

Ending the gridlock on nuclear waste storage. (Yucca Mountain, Nevada, US)
September 22, 1993... In light of the nation's hard-won experience with the political and technical with the political and technical realities of nuclear waste storage and containment, it's time to take another hard look at the Nuclear Waste Policy Act (NWPA) of...

Rethinking AIDS: The Tragic Cost of Premature Consensus.
September 22, 1993... The biologic world is rarely simple, and the relationship between acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is no exception. In Rethinking AIDS, Robert Root-Bernstein, an associate professor of...

Reclaiming the Last Wild Places. A New Agenda for Biodiversity.
September 22, 1993... Niles Eldredge "Biodiversity" is the increasingly familar term fot the world's biological riches--the millions of speicies that comprise the interlocking worldwide network of ecosystems. It is the buzzword of the modern conservation...

Testing Testing: Social Consequences of the Examined Life.
September 22, 1993... Between 1960 and 1989, revenues from sales of educational tests used in elementary and secondary schools more than doubled, while enrollments grew by only 15 percent. According to a recent study by the U.S. General Accounting Office, the United...

Acceptable Risks.
September 22, 1993... Acceptable Risks chronicles the actions of Jim Corti and Martin Delaney, two California AIDS activists who were ground-level participants in the successful movement to speed the pace at which new AIDS drugs are made available foir widespread...

Jurassic Park.
September 22, 1993... Our most popular entertainment media--motion pictures, television, and videos--all owe their existence to scientific and technological advances. Yet the entertainment industry has not been kind in return. More often than not, scientists and...