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In Agricultural Trade Talks, First Do No Harm

Issues — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 04:00:00 +0000

Trade negotiators at the World Trade Organization (WTO) are struggling to meet a self-imposed deadline of December 2005 to agree on the broad outlines of new trade rules that would cover global… Read More

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Reversing the Incredible Shrinking Energy R&D Budget

Issues — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 04:00:00 +0000

The federal government and private industry are both reducing their investments in energy research and development (R&D) at a time when geopolitics, environmental concerns, and economic competitiveness call instead for a major… Read More

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Managing the Digital Ecosystem

Issues — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 04:00:00 +0000

Benjamin Disraeli’s ironic comment, “I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?” aptly describes the feelings of many college and university administrators as they develop institutional plans for information technology… Read More

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Integrated Pest Management: A National Goal?

Issues — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 04:00:00 +0000

The original intent of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) was the coordinated use of multiple tactics for managing all classes of pests in an ecologically and economically sound way. Pesticides were to be… Read More

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Archives – Fall 2005

Issues — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 04:00:00 +0000

Bruce Alberts
Bruce Alberts recently finished a distinguished 12-year run as president of the National Academy of Sciences. Among his many accomplishments, Bruce played a key role in a successful development program… Read More

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The Case for Carbon Capture and Storage

Issues — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 04:00:00 +0000

Human activity spills about 25 billion tons of carbon dioxide (CO₂) into the atmosphere every year, building up the levels of greenhouse gases that bring us ever closer to dangerous… Read More

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The Challenge of Protecting Critical Infrastructure

Issues — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 04:00:00 +0000

In protecting critical infrastructure, the responsibility for setting goals rests primarily with the government, but the implementation of steps to reduce the vulnerability of privately owned and corporate assets depends primarily on… Read More

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Patagonia dreaming

Issues — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 04:00:00 +0000

There once was a world so lush with life that colonies of animals stretched as far as the eye could see. Of course this is not news. We’ve had glimpses of this… Read More

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Tech talk

Issues — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 04:00:00 +0000

At a meeting on Bali a decade ago, just as the Internet bubble was inflating, University of California, Berkeley, Nobel laureate Charlie Townes held an audience of Asian entrepreneurs spellbound as he… Read More

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Envisioning a Transformed University

Issues — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 04:00:00 +0000

Rapidly evolving information technology (IT) has played an important role in expanding our capacity to generate, distribute, and apply knowledge, which in turn has produced unpredictable and frequently disruptive change in existing… Read More

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