Recently added articles from Issues in Science and Technology:
Unburdening science.(FORUM)(Letter to the editor)
Mar 22, 2009; ... I resonate fully with the spirit and content of Shawn Lawrence Otto and Sheril Kirshenbaum's "Science on the Campaign Trail" (Issues Winter 2009). Science Debate 2008 was an unprecedented event that garnered substantial public attention and helped the campaigns hone their own policies ....
Flood protection.(FORUM)(Letter to the editor)
Mar 22, 2009 ... "Restoring and Protecting Coastal Louisiana" by Gerald E. Galloway, Donald F. Boesch, and Robert R. Twilley (Issues, Winter 2009) should be required reading for every member of Congress and every member of the newly appointed presidential administration. It graphically outlines the drastic ...
Regional climate change.(FORUM)(Letter to the editor)
Mar 22, 2009 ... In "Climate Change: Think Globally, Assess Regionally, Act Locally" (Issues, Winter 2009), Charles F. Kennel stresses the importance of empowering local leaders with better information about the climate at the regional level. He provides multiple evidence of the growing consensus that ...
Military restructuring.(FORUM)(Letter to the editor)
Mar 22, 2009; ... "Restructuring the Military," by Lawrence J. Korb and Max A. Bergmann (Issues, Fall 2008), makes many excellent points about the need to match our military forces to the current and potential future threat environments. There is, how ever, a critical issue of threat anticipation and ...
Obama cabinet picks vow to strengthen role of science.(FROM THE HILL)(Barack Obama)
Mar 22, 2009 ... Key members of President Obama's new cabinet are stressing the importance of science in developing policy as well as the need for scientific integrity and transparency in decisionmaking. In one of his first speeches, Ken Salazar, the new Department staff that he would lead with ...
Multifaceted ocean research bill advances.(FROM THE HILL)
Mar 22, 2009 ... The Senate on January 15, 2009, approved by a vote of 73 to 21 the Omnibus Public Lands Management Act of 2009, a package of five bills authorizing $794 million for expanded ocean research through FY 2015, including $104 million authorized for FY 2009, along with a slew of other wilderness ...
The challenge for the Obama administration science team.(PERSPECTIVES)(Barack Obama)(Essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... President Obama's choices for top government science positions have made a strong statement about the importance of science and technology (S & T) in our society. In choosing Nobel prize-winning physicist Stephen Chu for Secretary of Energy, marine biologist Jane Lubchenko to run the ...
Global warming: the hard road ahead.(PERSPECTIVES)(Essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... With a president committed to fighting climate change and a new Congress inclined to go along, the prospects for greenhouse gas emissions abatement legislation are bright. That's good news. The Bush and Clinton administrations' intransigence on this issue set back U.S. action by at least a ...
In the zone: comprehensive ocean protection.
Mar 22, 2009; ... Comprehensive ecosystem-based zoning could address many of the critical problems with U.S. ocean policy by providing a mechanism for coordinated management of ocean uses that takes into account the cumulative effects of multiple human activities. For too long, humanity's effects ...
A Reverse Brain Drain: The United States, long the beneficiary of talented immigrants, needs to act quickly to keep these valuable workers from leaving to pursue expanding opportunities in their home countries.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Although most of the national immigration debate originates with those who want to limit immigration, U.S. policymakers should be focusing on the more important task of attracting and keeping more highly skilled foreign-born scientists and engineers. The future strength of the nations ...
U.S. workers in a global job market: government needs to collect and analyze data on the offshoring of science and technology jobs so that it can take action to nurture and encourage highly skilled U.S. workers.(Industry overview)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Among the many changes that are part of the emergence of a global economy is a radically different relationship between U.S. high-tech companies and their employees. As late as the 1990s, a degree in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) was a virtual guarantee of ...
Closing the environmental data gap: information limitations are severely constraining our ability to identify and understand emerging environmental problems, devise interventions to address them, and evaluate whether our responses work.
Mar 22, 2009; ... The compelling evidence that the global climate is changing significantly and will continue to change for the foreseeable future means that we can expect to see similarly significant changes in a wide variety of other environmental conditions such as air and water quality; regional water ...
The bioterror threat: Bracing for Armageddon? The Science and Politics of Bioterrorism in America.
Mar 22, 2009 ... by William R. Clark, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2008, 224 pp. Michael Moodie World at Risk, a new report by the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism, concludes that "it is more likely than not that a weapon ...
Budget doubling defended.(FORUM)(National Institutes of Health budget)(Viewpoint essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Richard Freeman and John Van Reenen ("Be Careful What You Wish For: A Cautionary Tale about Budget Doubling," Issues, Fall 2008) provided a thought-provoking analysis of the budget doubling for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). They raised an important point that we must view future ...
Innovating for innovation.(FORUM)(Letter to the editor)
Jan 01, 2009 ... In "Creating a National Innovation Foundation" (Issues, Fall 2008), Robert Atkinson and Howard Wial make a compelling case for public policies that address how research discoveries become innovations, creating economic activity, jobs, and new capabilities. This line of discussion is too ...
Better environmental treaties.(FORUM)(Letter to the editor)
Jan 01, 2009 ... Lawrence Susskind has identified some key problems with the very structure of environmental treaty formulation ("Strengthening the Global Environmental Treaty System," Issues, Fall 2008). Some of the remedies he proposes are, however, already taking place but attaining mixed results. For ...
Managing military reform.(FORUM)(Letter to the editor)
Jan 01, 2009; ... In "Restructuring the Military" (Issues, Fall 2008), Lawrence J. Korb and Max A. Bergmann call the Pentagon "the world's largest bureaucracy", implying that it can be managed much like other very large organizations. They then go on to discuss policies that they believe should be put in ...
Sadan begynder en Epidemi.(Cartoon)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Atisch. Sadan begynder en Epidemi. (Achoo. Thus begins an epidemic.) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Kobenhavns ...
Not just for kids.(FORUM)(Letter to the editor)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Brian Bosworth's assessment in "The Crisis in Adult Education" (Issues, Summer 2008) is right on target. At a time when our country faces unparalleled economic uncertainty and unprecedented competition, the United States must dramatically increase the number of individuals with ...
Science and foreign policy.(FORUM)(Letter to the editor)
Jan 01, 2009 ... Gerald Hane has a valuable piece in the Fall 2008 Issues ("Science, Technology and Global Reengagement") arguing that the new administration must recognize the critical role of science and technology (S&T) in the conduct of the nation's foreign policy and that that role must be reflected ...