AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Daedalus articles from March 1999
A scholarly publication that is the official journal of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an international learned society whose Fellows are among the natio.'s most prominent thinkers in the arts, sciences, and the humanities, as well as the full
Set up an RSS feed
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Daedalus archives from March 1999
Popular diplomacy.(The Next Generation: Work in Progress)
March 22, 1999... In the three hours between President Clinton's announcement from Martha's Vineyard that U.S. Tomahawk cruise missiles had struck a chemical plant in the Sudan and terrorist training sites in Afghanistan and his statement on the same subject...
A view from the bridge: The Two Cultures debate, its legacy, and the history of science.(The Next Generation: Work in Progress)(Charles Percy Snow's 1959 Rede Lecture, 'The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution')
March 22, 1999... The job market for historians of science, while not as bad as in the recent past, has not yet grown so vigorous that one could safely consider saying "no" to much of anything asked in interviews. Hence, when asked recently in a grim voice...
The Silicon archipelago.(The Next Generation: Work in Progress)(planned information technology communities similar to Silicon Valley)
March 22, 1999... "Milk hearings here July 2," "Feeder Balks on Rollbacks, Cites Figures" - almost fifty years ago, these stories anchored the financial page of the San Jose Mercury, Santa Clara County's local newspaper. With one hundred thousand acres of...
The politics of biography: the case of East German old communists.(The Next Generation: Work in Progress)
March 22, 1999... "Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport; and it is as unfair as only sport can be." So wrote Philip Guedalla, an English historian, in 1920.(1) Guedalla's quip refers to the practice of writing biography, but...
To suffer by comparison?(The Next Generation: Work in Progress)(genocide and the Jewish Holocaust)
March 22, 1999... INTRODUCTION
In 1993 a group of Americans banded together to form an organization called "Jews Against Genocide" (JAG). Their explicit goal was to galvanize American interest in - and action to stop - the genocide then underway in Bosnia....
Illegitimate sufferers: A-bomb victims, medical science, and the government.
March 22, 1999... The A-bombs that were dropped on hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, not only caused the destruction of two communities and the deaths of countless people but also "created" a new group of human beings - hibakusha, literally...
What is left of the Left? More than one would think.
March 22, 1999... INTRODUCTION
Of the fifteen countries that make up the European Union, thirteen currently have a Left government. At no prior time has the Left enjoyed such power. Yet perhaps never before have its identity and purpose been so much in...