Caught in Traffic Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/issue/19-1/ The best minds on the most important topics. Tue, 26 Jul 2022 19:33:02 +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 Caught in Traffic Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/issue/19-1/ 32 32 Food Fights https://issues.org/br_moore-2/ Tue, 01 Oct 2002 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/br_moore-2/ Like a bee pollinating a field of flowers, biologist and honeybee researcher Mark Winston spent more than two years buzzing around the twilight zone of agricultural biotechnology. This genetically modified (GM) terrain… Read More

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]]> The Politics of Fire https://issues.org/br_sedjo/ Tue, 01 Oct 2002 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/br_sedjo/ Suppressing fire was the stated policy of the U.S. Forest Service for much of the past century and still dominates the thinking of most voters and legislators. Its consequence has been to… Read More

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]]> Science Advice or Political Cover? https://issues.org/editorsjournal-16/ Tue, 01 Oct 2002 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/editorsjournal-16/ What type of advice are political leaders looking for?
Science advisory committees are being dissed by the Bush administration according to recent stories in Science, the Washington Post, and the… Read More

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]]> Forum – Fall 2002 https://issues.org/forum-fall-2002/ Tue, 01 Oct 2002 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/forum-27/ Dealing with terror
I was a member of John Hamre’s Commission on Science and Security, and he does an outstanding job in his article of explaining what we were about and why… Read More

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]]> The Perils of Groundwater Pumping https://issues.org/glennon/ Tue, 01 Oct 2002 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/glennon/ The next time you reach for a bottle of spring water, consider that it may have come from a well that is drying up a blue-ribbon trout stream. The next time you… Read More

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]]> From the Hill – Fall 2002 https://issues.org/hill-23/ Tue, 01 Oct 2002 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/hill-23/ S&T given big boost in homeland security department
Both the House and Senate would create an undersecretary for science and technology (S&T) in the proposed Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The House… Read More

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]]> Paying for Protection from Invasive Species https://issues.org/jenkins/ Tue, 01 Oct 2002 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/jenkins/ The introduction of harmful, non-native, invasive species–terrestrial and aquatic–has received heightened recognition because of the threats this form of “biological pollution” poses to ecosystem health, endangered species, economic interests, and even public… Read More

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]]> A Fair Deal for Federal Research at Universities https://issues.org/p_bienenstock/ Tue, 01 Oct 2002 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/p_bienenstock/ The government has gone too far in its efforts to shift the costs of federally funded academic research to the universities. This transfer has reduced researcher productivity, led to inadequate research management,… Read More

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]]> Are All Market-Based Environmental Regulations Equal? https://issues.org/p_parry/ Tue, 01 Oct 2002 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/p_parry/ Economists have long advocated using the market to achieve environmental objectives. Possible policies include taxes on waste emissions and programs through which the government limits pollution by issuing emission permits that can… Read More

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]]> Public Views of Science Issues https://issues.org/realnumbers-10/ Tue, 01 Oct 2002 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/realnumbers-10/ Who should control the human genes used in research? (a) George Bush, (b) Leon Kass, (c) corporate America, (d) Kofi Annan, (e) you? If you said (d) or (e) you are in… Read More

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