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Nuclear Reckoning

Issues — Fri, 01 Jan 1999 05:00:00 +0000

After a truly admirable research effort, Stephen Schwartz and his colleagues have calculated for the first time the cost of all aspects of the U.S. nuclear weapons program, from its inception in… Read More

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The New Competitive Landscape

Issues — Fri, 01 Jan 1999 05:00:00 +0000

Only a decade ago, global competition shook U.S. self-confidence to the core. U.S. industry seemingly could not match the price and quality of manufactured goods that surged into the domestic market. As… Read More

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State R&D Funding

Issues — Fri, 01 Jan 1999 05:00:00 +0000

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A stressful world

Issues — Fri, 01 Jan 1999 05:00:00 +0000

Pundits and other policy sophisticates in Washington love to lampoon Americans who worry about preserving national sovereignty. Although there are extremists whose paranoid fantasies are absurd, we do live in a world… Read More

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Archives – Winter 1999

Issues — Fri, 01 Jan 1999 05:00:00 +0000

U.S. Geological Survey
Our photo shows the U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, conducted by Ferdinand V. Hayden, on the trail between the Yellowstone and East Fork Rivers in 1871.… Read More

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Winter 1999 Update

Issues — Fri, 01 Jan 1999 05:00:00 +0000

Crisis in U.S. organ transplant system intensifies
More than 10 Americans die each day while awaiting organ transplantation. The U.S. organ transplant system has been in “crisis” for decades, but recently its… Read More

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Sandia’s Science Park: A New Concept in Technology Transfer

Issues — Fri, 01 Jan 1999 05:00:00 +0000

When Sandia National Laboratories announced plans for a new science and technology (S&T) park, it opened a new avenue for partnership with private industry. For years, the national laboratories have been urged… Read More

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Fixing the Research Credit

Issues — Fri, 01 Jan 1999 05:00:00 +0000

Even as economists describe the importance of R&D in a knowledge-based economy and policymakers increase their fiscal commitments to other forms of R&D support, the United States has yet to take full… Read More

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Facing Up to Family Violence

Issues — Fri, 01 Jan 1999 05:00:00 +0000

For an alarming number of Americans, the family is a source of fear and physical violence. The 1996 National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect found 2.8 million reported cases of… Read More

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The Image of Engineering

Issues — Fri, 01 Jan 1999 05:00:00 +0000

Something’s wrong with the public perception of engineering. A recent Gallup poll found that only 2 percent of the respondents associated engineers with the word “invents” and only 3 percent associated them… Read More

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