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From the Hill – Spring 2005

Issues — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 05:00:00 +0000

Bush budget would cut most R&D programs
On February 7, President Bush released his proposed budget for FY 2006. Against a backdrop of record-breaking federal budget deficits, a continuing and costly war… Read More

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Peaking Oil Production: Sooner Rather Than Later?

Issues — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 05:00:00 +0000

World demand for oil continues to increase, but Earth’s endowment of oil is finite. Accordingly, geologists know that at some future date, conventional oil supply will no longer be capable of satisfying… Read More

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Interview: Sarah S. Brown

Issues — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 05:00:00 +0000

Sarah S. Brown is director of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, a nonprofit, nonpartisan initiative she helped created in 1996 to improve the wellbeing of children, youth, and families by… Read More

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Healthy Populations Nurture Healthy People

Issues — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 05:00:00 +0000

The fall 2004 decision by NBC to introduce a new TV program dramatizing the fight against emerging disease threats might be taken as a sign of rising glamour for the public health… Read More

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Preventing Childhood Obesity

Issues — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 05:00:00 +0000

After improving dramatically during the past century, the health of children and youth in the United States now faces a dangerous setback: an epidemic of obesity. It is occurring in boys and… Read More

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A Second Look at Nuclear Power

Issues — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 05:00:00 +0000

For more than three decades, energy policies in the United States and much of the Western world have been held in the ideological grip of a flawed concept: the notion that we… Read More

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Genomics and Public Health

Issues — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 05:00:00 +0000

Breakthroughs in biology are changing our world. Just as chemistry and physics had broad ramifications in the preceding centuries, the New Biology unleashed by the Human Genome Project and associated developments will… Read More

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The View from California

Issues — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 05:00:00 +0000

If what is happening in California is a leading indicator, and it usually is, many critical science and technology (S&T) policy debates are migrating from Washington to state capitals and even to… Read More

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Archives – Spring 2005

Issues — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 05:00:00 +0000

Albert Einstein Memorial Statue, Copyright 1978 by Robert Berks
Albert Einstein
One hundred years ago, Albert Einstein received his doctorate in physics from the University of Zurich and quickly made an indelible… Read More

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Real Numbers

Issues — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 05:00:00 +0000

With prospects for economic growth improving across the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) region, renewed attention is being directed to ways of tapping into science, technology, and innovation to achieve… Read More

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