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Precollege Science Teachers Need Better Training

Issues — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 04:00:00 +0000

Now and in the decades to come, science literacy may well be the defining factor for our success as individuals and as a nation. Indeed, U.S. global competitiveness and its national security… Read More

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Building a Transatlantic Biotech Partnership

Issues — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 04:00:00 +0000

The United States and Europe continue to turn up the heat in their long-simmering biotech stew. In May 2003, the Bush administration initiated a challenge within the World Trade Organization (WTO) to… Read More

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Saving the Oceans

Issues — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 04:00:00 +0000

The oceans have been suffering from a variety of escalating insults for decades: excessive and destructive fishing; loss of wetlands and other valuable habitat; pollution from industries, farms, and households; invasion of… Read More

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Sink or Swim Time for U.S. Fishery Policy

Issues — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 04:00:00 +0000

Marine species residing in U.S. territorial waters and the men and women who make their livelihood from them are at a critical juncture. Many species are overexploited and face additional threats from… Read More

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Archives – Fall 2004

Issues — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 04:00:00 +0000

Photo: Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
Henry Bryant Bigelow
It was at the urging of Harvard University zoologist Henry Bryant Bigelow, shown here piloting the yacht… Read More

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Fall 2004 Update

Issues — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 04:00:00 +0000

U.S. commitment to human spaceflight beyond Earth orbit still in doubt
In “A Sustainable Rationale for Human Spaceflight” (Issues, Winter 2004), I forecast that President George W. Bush would… Read More

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Meeting the New Challenge to U.S. Economic Competitiveness

Issues — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 04:00:00 +0000

The U.S. economy, seemingly a world-dominant Goliath in the mid- and late-1990s, now faces major structural challenges from a new cast of Davids. The nation confronts a host of new economic challengers… Read More

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Small Combat Ships and the Future of the Navy

Issues — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 04:00:00 +0000

In November 2001, the U.S. Navy announced a new family of 21st century surface warships that includes a small, focused-mission combatant called the Littoral Combat Ship, or LCS. The LCS would be… Read More

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Ain’t it hard?

Issues — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 04:00:00 +0000

The kind of poverty that’s hardest to shake is overdetermined. Dropping out of high school leads to the lowest-paid and least secure jobs, which can mean frequent stints of unemployment, which can… Read More

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Where’s Oppie?

Issues — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 04:00:00 +0000

Imagine spending half a century to write a short book. That’s what Jeremy Bernstein has done, and the wait was worth it. A physics professor and New Yorker writer, Bernstein has watched… Read More

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