Issues in Science and Technology articles from September 1996

Issues in Science and Technology archives from September 1996

Crunch time for control of advanced arms exports.
September 22, 1996... In the wake of the Cold War, the proliferation of conventional weapons is emerging as a critical international issue. New economic pressures - the result of shrinking international arms sales combined with cutbacks in domestic defense procurement...

Transforming the Navy's war-fighting capabilities.
September 22, 1996... On June 26, 1897, Great Britain's Royal Navy conducted a review in honor of Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee. The review represented the greatest concentration of naval power the world had ever seen. At the heart of that power were the Royal...

Climate science and national interests.
September 22, 1996... Scientific developments and a change in U.S. policy have shifted the terms of the discussions that will take place in June 1997 at the conference of parties to the Framework Convention on Climate Change. Growing scientific confidence about the...

The greening of U.S. foreign policy.
September 22, 1996... For many individuals concerned with the ecological health of the planet, the end of the Cold War presented an unexpected opportunity to harness U.S. foreign policy to a grand strategy of environmental rescue. The 1992 "Earth Summit" in Rio de...

Roundtable: the politics of genetic testing.(Panel Discussion)
September 22, 1996... This discussion took place in March 1996 at "The Genetics Revolution: A Catalyst for Education and Public Policy," a conference sponsored by North Lake College and others in Dallas, Texas. The participants were all Green Center fellows at the...

Dangerous intersections. (genetic privacy)
September 22, 1996... Over the past two years, several prominent working groups and expert committees have circulated or published position papers attempting to address widespread public anxiety over the potential uses and abuses of genetic information. A number of...

The dilemma of environmental democracy.
September 22, 1996... We live in a world of manifest promise and still more manifest fear, both inseparably linked to developments in science and technology. Our faith in technological progress is solidly grounded in a century of historical achievements. In just one...

U.S. seaports: at the crossroads of the global economy.
September 22, 1996... U.S. seaports are showing signs of neglect, a disturbing prospect as the nation competes in an increasingly dynamic global economy. Many aspects of port infrastructure and management are mid-century relics. And while ports throughout Europe and...

A better home for undergraduate science.
September 22, 1996... A renaissance is beginning in undergraduate education in science, mathematics, engineering and technology. New discoveries and emerging technologies are changing the face of science - and the way that science is learned. In the wake of a series...

The Lives to Come: The Genetic Revolution and Human Possibilities.
September 22, 1996... To be successful, the Human Genome Project, the 15-year-long effort to map the estimated 3 billion nucleotides and 100,000 genes that form the genetic makeup of a human being, will need to achieve major breakthroughs in a host of scientific and...

Can Democracies Fly in Space?: The Challenge of Revitalizing the U.S. Space Program.
September 22, 1996... In Can Democracies Fly in Space?, W. D. Kay, a political scientist at Northeastern University, argues that "something is terribly wrong" with the U.S. civil space program. It is in trouble, he believes, because the U.S. political system is...

Global Habit: The Drug Problem in a Borderless World.
September 22, 1996... As the 1996 presidential campaign heats up, drug use and control have once again become prominent political issues. Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole has labeled the increased use of marijuana among teenagers, as reported in several...

Can science get any respect?
September 22, 1996... This has been an up-and-down year for the public image of science. Those smart-ass humanist critics of science got their comeuppance when Social Text, one of their trendy journals, published an article by Alan Sokal, a physicist at the City...