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Archives – Spring 2006

Issues — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 05:00:00 +0000

TIM ROLLINS + K.O.S. AND BANNEKER HIGH SCHOOL PARTICIPANTS, On the Nature of the Universe (after Lucretius), Watercolor, acrylic ink, India ink, aqaba paper, collage, and book paper on canvas, 76 … Read More

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The U.S. Energy Subsidy Scorecard

Issues — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 05:00:00 +0000

In his State of the Union address on January 31, 2006, President Bush called for more research on alternative energy technologies to help wean the country from its oil dependence. The proposal… Read More

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A Dam Shame

Issues — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 05:00:00 +0000

Jacques Leslie is a journalist, and Deep Water has a journalist’s style. It reads well and tells a compelling story. The book relates first-person accounts of three protagonists, each of whom is… Read More

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Straight Talk: Don’t “Dis” Chinese Science

Issues — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 05:00:00 +0000

Considering the worldwide attention being paid to the growing economic, technological, and scientific prowess of China, one would expect that the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the… Read More

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An antidote to sprawl

Issues — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 05:00:00 +0000

Bruce Babbitt, former Arizona governor and U.S. secretary of the Department of the Interior, proposes not so much a new vision of land use in the United States, as indicated in the… Read More

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Protecting the Best of the West

Issues — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 05:00:00 +0000

Once considered the leftovers of Western settlement and land grabs, the 261 million acres of deserts, forests, river valleys, mountains, and canyons managed by the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) are… Read More

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Regulatory diversity

Issues — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 05:00:00 +0000

Polling data from the late 1990s in Europe and the United States revealed curious differences in public attitudes. In the United States, there appeared to be a high level of acceptance of… Read More

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Lost in space

Issues — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 05:00:00 +0000

In his first year as National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) administrator, Michael Griffin concluded that the space shuttle is an “inherently flawed vehicle” and that both the shuttle and the space… Read More

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Cartoons – Spring 2006

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Controlling Iran’s Nuclear Program

Issues — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 05:00:00 +0000

The world would be a more dangerous place with nuclear weapons in Iran. A Persian power with a keen sense of its 2,500-year history, Iran occupies a pivotal position straddling the Caspian… Read More

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