Computing Solutions to Airline Safety and Other Policy Dilemmas Archives | Issues in Science and Technology http://issues.org/issue/21-2/ The best minds on the most important topics. Fri, 15 Jul 2022 23:19:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://issues.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cropped-issues-favicon-32x32.png Computing Solutions to Airline Safety and Other Policy Dilemmas Archives | Issues in Science and Technology http://issues.org/issue/21-2/ 32 32 Agricultural Biotechnology: Overregulated and Underappreciated https://issues.org/miller-2/ Sat, 01 Jan 2005 05:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/miller-2/ The application of recombinant DNA technology, or gene splicing, to agriculture and food production, once highly touted as having huge public health and commercial potential, has been paradoxically disappointing. Although the gains… Read More

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]]> Unleashing the Potential of Wireless Broadband https://issues.org/p_hundt/ Sat, 01 Jan 2005 05:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/p_hundt/ Broadcast TV, once vilified by former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Newton Minnow as a “vast wasteland,” can now also be characterized as a vast roadblock—specifically, a roadblock to the rapid expansion… Read More

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]]> Underage drinking https://issues.org/realnumbers-16/ Sat, 01 Jan 2005 05:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/realnumbers-16/ Alcohol use by young people is dangerous, not only because of the risks associated with acute impairment, but also because of the threat to their long-term development and well-being. Traffic crashes are… Read More

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]]> A New System for Moving Drugs to Market https://issues.org/woosley/ Sat, 01 Jan 2005 05:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/woosley/ The pharmaceutical industry is one of the most successful components of the U.S. economy. In recent years, however, critics have increasingly blamed the industry for setting prices too high, for earning too… Read More

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]]> Archives – Winter 2005 https://issues.org/archives-29/ Sat, 01 Jan 2005 05:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/archives-29/ Montgomery C. Meigs
Montgomery C. Meigs, a career soldier in the Army Corps of Engineers, distinguished himself as an engineer and military planner and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences… Read More

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]]> Internet for all https://issues.org/br_blumenthal-2/ Sat, 01 Jan 2005 05:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/br_blumenthal-2/ The Internet seems to be everywhere. The daily news chronicles its advance on the economy; social, civic, and personal activities can increasingly be pursued online; and cyberspace options are portrayed as cooler,… Read More

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]]> Global challenge https://issues.org/br_lewis-8/ Sat, 01 Jan 2005 05:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/br_lewis-8/ The past quarter century has witnessed a momentous global transformation occasioned by the rise of new economic powers. China has experienced the most rapid economic expansion in world history, its output of… Read More

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]]> The Constitution versus security https://issues.org/br_parker/ Sat, 01 Jan 2005 05:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/br_parker/ Among those analyzing the tensions between our constitutional values and modern terrorism, Philip B. Heymann is in a class by himself. A distinguished academic with substantial government service during the period when… Read More

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]]> Preventing a Nuclear 9/11 https://issues.org/bunn/ Sat, 01 Jan 2005 05:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/bunn/ In their presidential contest, President George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry agreed that the most deadly danger facing the United States is the possibility that terrorists could obtain a nuclear bomb.… Read More

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]]> No Country Left Behind https://issues.org/bybee/ Sat, 01 Jan 2005 05:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/bybee/ “Economic Time Bomb: U.S. Teens Are Among Worst at Math,” blared the December 7, 2004, Wall Street Journal headline over a story about the disheartening results of the latest international assessment of… Read More

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