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From the Hill – Summer 2001

Issues — Sun, 01 Jul 2001 04:00:00 +0000

DOD, NIH big winners in Bush R&D budget; other agencies face cuts
On April 9, the Bush administration released details of its fiscal year (FY) 2002 budget request, which contains an overall… Read More

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European Responses to Biotechnology: Research, Regulation, and Dialogue

Issues — Sun, 01 Jul 2001 04:00:00 +0000

Modern biotechnology is the fruit of a massive surge of knowledge about the structure and functioning of living entities that has taken place over the past few decades. The surge continues unabated… Read More

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The Wild Card in the Climate Change Debate

Issues — Sun, 01 Jul 2001 04:00:00 +0000

The debate on global warming, framed on one side by those who see a long-term gradual warming of global surface temperatures and on the other side by those who see only small… Read More

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More than a Food Fight

Issues — Sun, 01 Jul 2001 04:00:00 +0000

From some perspectives, the news for agricultural biotechnology boosters seems good. Latest figures show farmers sowing genetically modified (GM) crops with a vengeance. Over half of the U.S. soybean crop, 25 percent… Read More

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Redesigning Food Safety

Issues — Sun, 01 Jul 2001 04:00:00 +0000

Controversy over genetically modified foods has helped put food safety in the headlines, but that issue, like others we read about–mad cow disease, Listeria and Salmonella outbreaks, chemical contamination–needs to be understood… Read More

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Needed: A National Center for Biological Invasions

Issues — Sun, 01 Jul 2001 04:00:00 +0000

Introduced organisms are the second greatest cause, after habitat destruction, of species endangerment and extinction worldwide. In the United States, nonindigenous species do more than $130 billion a year in damage to… Read More

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Retooling Farm Policy

Issues — Sun, 01 Jul 2001 04:00:00 +0000

In 2000, federal direct payments to U.S. farmers exceeded $22 billion. Farm groups contend that as much as an extra $117 billion will be needed over the next 10 years to expand… Read More

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Archives – Summer 2001

Issues — Sun, 01 Jul 2001 04:00:00 +0000

Photo: National Academy Archives
Airship Safety
One of the first studies undertaken on behalf of the government by the newly established National Research Council was a 1917 investigation into the problem of… Read More

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Patenting Agriculture

Issues — Sun, 01 Jul 2001 04:00:00 +0000

More than one million children die each year because of a chronic lack of vitamin A. Millions more suffer disease. Many of these children live in developing nations where rice is the… Read More

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Drug use and Control

Issues — Sun, 01 Jul 2001 04:00:00 +0000

Forces of Habit offers an ambitious interpretation of a challenging topic: the evolution of drug use and drug policy through time and across continents. Happily, it does this with no axe to… Read More

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