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World War I Aircraft Detection
Within days of U.S. entry into World War I in April 1917, the Navy requested the National Research Council’s help in developing a… Read More

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]]> Striking a New Deal on Climate Change https://issues.org/benedick/ Mon, 01 Oct 2001 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/benedick/ Eight months after the international community’s startling failure in The Hague to agree on how to implement the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on climate change, some 180 national delegations, along with thousands of… Read More

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]]> NetPolicy.Com https://issues.org/br_blumenthal/ Mon, 01 Oct 2001 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/br_blumenthal/ Public policy about, for, and because of the Internet is hot. The growth of the Internet and its uses and abuses have made it everyday news. Government attention has grown accordingly, and… Read More

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]]> The Info/Biotech Connection https://issues.org/editorsjournal-12/ Mon, 01 Oct 2001 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/editorsjournal-12/ Although wide agreement exists that information technology (IT) and biotechnology will be the primary sources of innovation for the foreseeable future, this insight seems not to have penetrated fully into federal research… Read More

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]]> Repositioning the Advanced Technology Program https://issues.org/fong/ Mon, 01 Oct 2001 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/fong/ The Commerce Department’s Advanced Technology Program (ATP) has been the lighting rod of U.S. civilian technology policy during the past decade. Consider the program’s short but volatile budget history. ATP was initially… Read More

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]]> Forum – Fall 2001 https://issues.org/forum-23/ Mon, 01 Oct 2001 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/forum-23/ Improving the military
The Army is in the midst of a fundamental transformation to meet the challenges of the 21st century operational environment. In the not-too-distant future, we will rely on new… Read More

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]]> From the Hill – Fall 2001 https://issues.org/hill-19/ Mon, 01 Oct 2001 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/hill-19/ New limits on funding of stem cell research questioned
In the wake of President Bush’s decision to allow federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research, although only on the 64 stem… Read More

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]]> U.S. Economic Growth in the Information Age https://issues.org/jorgenson/ Mon, 01 Oct 2001 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/jorgenson/ The resurgence of the U.S. economy from 1995 to 1999 outran all but the most optimistic expectations. It is not surprising that the unusual combination of more rapid growth and slower inflation… Read More

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]]> Improving U.S.-Russian Nuclear Cooperation https://issues.org/luongo/ Mon, 01 Oct 2001 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/luongo/ Anticipating that nuclear proliferation problems might erupt from the disintegration of the Soviet Union a decade ago, the United States created a security agenda for working jointly with Russia to reduce the… Read More

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]]> From Genomics and Informatics to Medical Practice https://issues.org/p_silverstein/ Mon, 01 Oct 2001 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/p_silverstein/ Biomedical research is being fundamentally transformed by developments in genomics and informatics, and this transformation will lead inevitably to a revolution in medical practice. Neither academic research institutions nor society at large… Read More

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