Issues in Science and Technology articles from September 1994

Issues in Science and Technology archives from September 1994

Updated science policymaking: finishing the job.
September 22, 1994... Congress needs to reform its budget process; the executive branch must improve its implementation of programs. As the pace of discovery and innovation continues to accelerate, the importance of science and technology to economic competitiveness...

Flat-panel displays: catalyzing a U.S. industry.
September 22, 1994... The military has neither early nor assured access to one of the most critical technologies of the 21st century. Our national security demands that U.S. military forces have guaranteed, cost-effective access to the world's best technology. One...

Time to up the ante in the war on smoking.
September 22, 1994... Tough new federal and state actions are needed to prevent children and young people from lighting up. In the past few years, it has become disturbingly clear that the remarkable progress made in recent decades in reducing tobacco use has...

Assessing the nation's biological resources.
September 22, 1994... We need a new strategy for implementing the visionary National Biological Survey. Bruce Babbitt took charge of the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) determined to expand the role of science in federal land-management policy and thus avoid,...

Organ donations: the failure of altruism.
September 22, 1994... Voluntary organ donation should be replaced with a system of compensated presumed consent. The U.S. organ transplantation system is in crisis. At a time when transplant survival rates are at an all-time high, the waiting list for organs grows...

Computer insecurity. (protecting against computer network crimes) (Issues in Focus: Communications for a New Century)
September 22, 1994... Action is needed on many fronts to protect computer systems and communications from unauthorized use and manipulation. The wonders of the Internet and the promise of the worldwide information infrastructure have recently reached headline...

Don't settle for partial phone deregulation. (Issues in Focus: Communications for a New Century)
September 22, 1994... Spurred by a technological revolution, massive industry realignment, and growing consumer demand for new services, Congress is rushing to complete work on the most sweeping overhaul of the nation's telecommunications system in 60 years. The...

A strategy for modernizing the apparel industry.
September 22, 1994... A model program can demonstrate how small firms can work together to become world-class competitors. For a dramatic example of how government policy affects industry performance and what global competition means for U.S. workers, one need look...

Medicine, public health, and environment. (Panel Discussion)
September 22, 1994... "Medicine and public health will be transformed into an ecological science." 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...

Facing up to bioethical decisions.
September 22, 1994... The country needs a national forum to study and discuss difficult questions that have been too-long ignored. Bioethical controversies have become routine items in the daily news as society struggles with a host of complex moral problems posed...

Ultimate Security: The Environmental Basis of Political Stability.
September 22, 1994... In this book Norman Myers, the noted conservation biologist, Africa expert, and environmental activist, presents an impassioned plea for a major international effort to halt accelerating environmental deterioration, particularly in the Third...

Hostages of Each Other: The Transformation of Nuclear Safety Since Three Mile Island.
September 22, 1994... A book on nuclear safety written by a professor of political science! Don't expect to find arcane discussions of loss-of-coolant accidents or reactor-vessel embrittlement. Do expect a thoughtful, if insufficiently critical, explanation of the...

Tankers Full of Trouble.
September 22, 1994... Just after midnight on March 24, 1989, the oil tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground hours after it left Valdez, Alaska, and approximately 10 million gallons of crude oil from eight ruptured cargo tanks gushed into the pure waters of Prince William...

How Schools Change: Lessons from Three Communities.
September 22, 1994... A more descriptive title for Tony Wagner's book might be "obstacles and frustrations encountered by people who try to change their schools." Most of How Schools Change provides excellent and often moving descriptions of school-reform battles in...