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Electrical Blackouts: A Systemic Problem

Issues — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 04:00:00 +0000

About every four months, the United States experiences a blackout large enough to darken half a million homes. As long ago as 1965, a massive blackout in New York captured the nation’s… Read More

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Archives – Summer 2004

Issues — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 04:00:00 +0000

Photo: Courtesy of Beckman Coulter, Inc.
Arnold O. Beckman
What began as an invention to measure the acidity of lemons ended up producing a revolution in scientific instruments–and a fortune for inventor… Read More

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Out of the bottle

Issues — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 04:00:00 +0000

In 1995, Gartner Group analyst Jackie Fenn invented the term “hype cycle” to describe the pattern of broad public interest in technologies. A typical hype cycle begins when a “technology trigger”–a media… Read More

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Environmental weatherman

Issues — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 04:00:00 +0000

Over the past half century, the environmental jeremiad has emerged as a minor publishing genre. Such works typically provide a grim assessment of the environmental situation before warning us that the time… Read More

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Energy Futures

Issues — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 04:00:00 +0000

Vaclav Smil has done it again. He has written yet another important book on energy and has managed to make it interesting, readable, and rich with data and references.
He begins by… Read More

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Completing the Transformation of U.S. Military Forces

Issues — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 04:00:00 +0000

On taking office in 2001, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld announced his intention to transform the U.S. armed forces to meet today’s threats of rogue states and transnational terrorism. The effectiveness of… Read More

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Forum – Summer 2004

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Preventing nuclear proliferation
Michael May and Tom Isaacs’ “Stronger Measures Needed To Prevent Proliferation” (Issues, Spring 2004) is a significant contribution to the ongoing discussion on how best to… Read More

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Forests Face New Threat: Global Market Changes

Issues — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 04:00:00 +0000

For the past 100 years, U.S. forest policy has been guided by the assumption that the United States faced an ever-increasing scarcity of timber. Indeed, at times during the 20th century, there… Read More

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From the Hill – Summer 2004

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Most R&D agencies prepare for budget cuts in fiscal year 2006
The Bush administration’s plan to reduce the federal deficit in half over the next five years would mean cuts in funding… Read More

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A Patent System for the 21st Century

Issues — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 04:00:00 +0000

The breakneck pace of innovation across many industries, the explosive developments in particular areas such as biotechnology and software, and the rapidly changing role of universities in the development and ownership of… Read More

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