Looking Back, Looking Forward Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/issue/19-4/ The best minds on the most important topics. Mon, 01 Aug 2022 18:04:05 +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 Looking Back, Looking Forward Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/issue/19-4/ 32 32 Next Steps in Defense Restructuring https://issues.org/gansler/ Tue, 01 Jul 2003 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/gansler/ Twenty years ago, the United States was in the midst of a Cold War military buildup targeted against the Soviet Union and the other Warsaw Pact countries. Today there is no… Read More

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]]> Cooperation with China https://issues.org/perrolle/ Tue, 01 Jul 2003 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/perrolle/ In the wake of China’s crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, the country’s progress on important fronts seemed to be in jeopardy. Many U.S. observers worried… Read More

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]]> How Smart Have Weapons Become? https://issues.org/garwin/ Tue, 01 Jul 2003 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/garwin/ By the early 1980s, the technology was in hand to define “smart weapons” that could fill at least three important military purposes. First, guided weapons could provide theater-range artillery fire accurately… Read More

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]]> Restructuring the U.S. Health Care System https://issues.org/relman/ Tue, 01 Jul 2003 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/relman/ The past two decades have seen major economic changes in the health care system in the United States, but no solution has been found for the basic problem of cost control.… Read More

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]]> Conservator Society Still a Dream https://issues.org/gibbons/ Tue, 01 Jul 2003 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/gibbons/ Society is all too committed to the notion of “progress” as measured through economic growth and population expansion. The notion of working toward a “sustainable future” is not given much serious… Read More

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]]> Maglev Ready for Prime Time https://issues.org/rote/ Tue, 01 Jul 2003 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/rote/ Putting Maglev on Track” (Issues, Spring 1990) observed that growing airline traffic and associated delays were already significant and predicted that they would worsen. The article argued that… Read More

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]]> Globalization: Causes and Effects https://issues.org/gomory-globalization-cause-effect-consequences/ Tue, 01 Jul 2003 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/gomory/ Globalization traces its roots to at least the late 1980s. At that time, new countries were entering into manufacturing, which was in some sense the weakest link in the U.S. chain… Read More

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]]> The Continued Danger of Overfishing https://issues.org/safina-2/ Tue, 01 Jul 2003 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/safina-2/ New studies continue to chronicle how overfishing and poor management have severely hurt the U.S. commercial fishing industry. Thus, it makes sense to examine the effectiveness of the Sustainable Fisheries Act… Read More

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]]> The Foreign Student Dilemma https://issues.org/armstrong/ Tue, 01 Jul 2003 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/armstrong/ When the Cold War ended in the early 1990s, many people in the United States were talking about a “new rationale” for federal support of university research in the physical sciences… Read More

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]]> Science in the New Russia https://issues.org/graham-2/ Tue, 01 Jul 2003 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/graham-2/ In the former Soviet Union, science and technology served as major forces moderating national policies. The advent of nuclear weapons forced the country to give up its earlier Leninist thesis that… Read More

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