Recently added articles from Issues in Science and Technology:
Controlling health care costs.(FORUM)
Jun 22, 2008 ... Robert Louis Stevenson wrote, "These are my politics: to change what we can; to better what we can." Health care in the 21st century requires a change from old ways of thinking and doing business to better the lives of all Americans. The articles by Peter Orszag ("Time to Act on ...
Design and the Elastic Mind.
Jun 22, 2008 ... The imagery featured in this edition of issues in Science and Technology is from the exhibition Design and the Elastic Mind, which was on view at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, from February 24 through May 12,2008. Organized by Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator, and Patricia Juncosa ...
Middle East economics.(FORUM)
Jun 22, 2008 ... Howard Pack's analysis of East Asia's economic successes rings true ("Asian Successes vs. Middle Eastern Failures: The Role of Technology Transfer in Economic Development," Issues, Spring 2008). The importance placed on education; stable macroeconomic policies and strong institutions; high ...
Homeland security research.(FORUM)
Jun 22, 2008 ... "The R&D Future of Intelligence" by Bruce Berkowitz (Issues, Spring 2008) accurately portrays many of the significant technology-related challenges--and opportunities--confronting the intelligence community today and suggests four pragmatic "strategy principles" that could lead to a ...
Nuclear safeguards.(FORUM)
Jun 22, 2008 ... In "Strengthening Nuclear Safeguards" (Issues, Spring 2008), among the five factors considered by Charles D. Ferguson to explain why the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is confronting a crisis in its ability to detect undeclared nuclear activities, I believe the most relevant one ...
Protecting migration routes.(FORUM)(Letter to the editor)
Jun 22, 2008 ... Almost all birdwatchers in the United States who have been actively involved in their hobby for more than a decade probably have the sense that there are now fewer migratory birds than there were when they first began birding. In fact, one birder, Barth Schorre, who photographed ...
Reforming medical liability.(FORUM)(Letter to the editor)
Jun 22, 2008 ... Frank Sloan and Lindsey Chepke are to be commended for calling attention to fundamental problems in America's medical liability system ("From Medical Malpractice to Quality Assurance," Issues, Spring 2008). The existing system compensates few patients who have been injured, its deterrent ...
Ammar Eloueini.(Brief article)
Jun 22, 2008 ... AEDS Ammar Eloueini Digit-all Studio Eloueni describes this as "one chair with an infinite series of possibilities." The chair starts out in the computer as an ever-changing animated character. Its evolution can be "paused" at any stage and the digital still file transferred to ...
Susana Soares.(Brief article)
Jun 22, 2008 ... Design Interactions Department, Royal College of Art, UK Genetic Trace imagines a future in which people will be equipped with specially designed organs that will act as perception enhancers, allowing them to collect genetic material from those they encounter. The need for such ...
Bush signs genetic nondiscrimination bill.(FROM THE HILL)(Brief article)
Jun 22, 2008 ... On May 21, President Bush signed a bill that bans health insurers and employers from discriminating against anyone whose genetic information shows a predisposition to illnesses such as cancer or heart disease. The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA), first introduced in 1995, ...
Possible political interference at the EPA investigated.(FROM THE HILL)
Jun 22, 2008 ... On May 7, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee's Subcommittee on Public Sector Solutions to Global Warming, Oversight, and Children's Health Protection held a hearing on the scientific integrity of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) policy decisions. In ...
Bill introduced to close FACA "loopholes".(FROM THE HILL)(Federal Advisory Committee Act)(Brief article)
Jun 22, 2008 ... Two House members have introduced legislation aimed at closing "loopholes" in the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA). The bill was introduced by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and Rep. Wm. Lacy Clay (D-MO), chairman of the ...
Climate impact on oceans examined.(FROM THE HILL)
Jun 22, 2008 ... On April 29, the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming held a hearing on the impact of climate change on the world's oceans, a relatively new topic of exploration for the nation's policy-makers. The four scientific experts testifying at the hearing provided ...
The Path Not Studied.(EDITOR'S JOURNAL)
Jun 22, 2008; Finneran, Kevin ... Corporate executives, elected officials, political analysts, leading academics, and the rest of the national elite have formed a chorus of voices proclaiming the value of more and better education for all Americans. The message to the nation, particularly the young and disadvantaged, says ...
Research funding via direct democracy: is it good for science?(PERSPECTIVES)
Jun 22, 2008; Gerardi Riordan, Donna ... On November 2, 2004, California voters passed the California Stem Cell Research and Cures Bond Act of 2004, popularly known as Prop 71. Its purpose and intent was to, among other things: * "Protect and benefit the California budget: ... by founding scientific and medical ...
It's about more than money.(PERSPECTIVES)
Jun 22, 2008; Feller, Irwin ... Presidential Science Advisor John Marburger's call for a new science of science policy has led the National Science Foundation to initiate a program to support the development of more rigorous empirical and theoretical foundations for understanding and evaluating U.S. science and ...
Strategies for Today's energy challenge: developing new energy sources provides an economic and technological opportunity for the United States.
Jun 22, 2008; Bingaman, Jeff ... The energy challenge the United States faces today is different from and more encompassing than what it encountered even a few years ago. Until fairly recently, at least in Washington, the energy challenge was seen largely as the need to reduce dependence on foreign oil. For the past ...
Samuel Cabot Cochran and Benjamin wheeler howes.(Brief article)
Jun 22, 2008 ... Sustainably Minded Interactive Technology, LLC GROW, a hybrid energy delivery device, was inspired by ivy. Its "leaves" are flexible photovoltaic panels that generate solar power; their fluttering generates wind power. The designers ...
A new Manhattan project for clean energy independence: the United States must marshal its resources and talent to tackle the challenge of coping with climate change.
Jun 22, 2008; Alexander, Lamar ... In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Sen. Kenneth McKellar, the Tennessean who chaired the Appropriations Committee, to hide $2 billion in the appropriations bill for a secret project to win World War II. Sen. McKellar replied, "Mr. President, I have just one ...
Philips Research laboratories, the Netherlands FEI Company, USA.(Brief article)
Jun 22, 2008 ... FEI specializes in nanotechnology equipment, including the scanning electron microscopes that Holthuysen used to take these pictures. Since conventional light microscopes'resolving power starts declining after magnifications of two thousand-fold, electron microscopes, which can achieve ...