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From the Hill – Spring 2002

Issues — Mon, 01 Apr 2002 05:00:00 +0000

Federal R&D in FY 2002 will have biggest percentage gain in 20 years
Federal R&D spending will rise to $103.7 billion in fiscal year (FY) 2002, a $12.3 billion or 13.5 percent… Read More

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Life-Saving Products from Coral Reefs

Issues — Mon, 01 Apr 2002 05:00:00 +0000

During the past decade, marine biotechnology has been applied to the areas of public health and human disease, seafood safety, development of new materials and processes, and marine ecosystem restoration and remediation.… Read More

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A Sweeter Deal at Yucca Mountain

Issues — Mon, 01 Apr 2002 05:00:00 +0000

As this is written in the late winter of 2002, the stage is set for a struggle in Congress over whether to override the impending Nevada veto of President Bush’s selection of… Read More

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A Makeover for Engineering Education

Issues — Mon, 01 Apr 2002 05:00:00 +0000

Hollywood directors are said to be only as good as their last picture. Maintaining their reputations means keeping up the good work–continuing to do encores that are not only high-quality but that… Read More

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Updating Automotive Research

Issues — Mon, 01 Apr 2002 05:00:00 +0000

On January 9, 2002, Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Spencer Abraham announced a new public-private cooperative research program with the three major domestic automakers. According to a press release, the program would… Read More

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Solving the Broadband Paradox

Issues — Mon, 01 Apr 2002 05:00:00 +0000

If The Graduate were being filmed today, the one-word piece of advice that young Benjamin Braddock would hear is “broadband.” Most simply defined as a high-speed communications connection to the home or… Read More

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Putting Teeth in the Biological Weapons Convention

Issues — Mon, 01 Apr 2002 05:00:00 +0000

In the fall of 2001, letters sent through the U.S. mail containing powdered anthrax bacterial spores killed five people, infected 18 others, disrupted the operations of all three branches of the U.S.… Read More

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Spring 2002 Update

Issues — Mon, 01 Apr 2002 05:00:00 +0000

Bush reverses course, supports funding boost for nonproliferation efforts
In “Improving U.S.-Russian Nuclear Cooperation” (Issues, Fall 2001), I highlighted the misguided decision of President Bush to propose significant funding reductions… Read More

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Operation Deep Freeze

Issues — Mon, 01 Apr 2002 05:00:00 +0000

The US Navy’s Operation Deep Freeze I, launched in December 1955, set up facilities in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, for use in the upcoming International Geophysical Year of 1957-1958.

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Science at the CIA

Issues — Mon, 01 Apr 2002 05:00:00 +0000

The science and technology (S&T) achievements of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have been responsible for many of the agency’s key accomplishments in the field of intelligence analysis. Intelligence gleaned from technical… Read More

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