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Bioethics for Everyone

Issues — Wed, 01 Jul 1998 04:00:00 +0000

Arthur Caplan is the Babe Ruth of medical ethics. He looks like the Babe—a healthy, affable, stout man, who enjoys life, and is universally liked. Like the Babe, he is prodigiously productive,… Read More

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From the Hill – Summer 1998

Issues — Wed, 01 Jul 1998 04:00:00 +0000

Space station woes infuriate Congress
Cost and schedule overruns for the international space station program are increasingly exasperating members of Congress, even those who have fought long and hard to support the… Read More

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Resolving the Paradox of Environmental Protection

Issues — Wed, 01 Jul 1998 04:00:00 +0000

The next big breakthrough in environmental management is likely to be a series of small breakthroughs. Capitol Hill may be paralyzed by a substantive and political impasse, but throughout the United States,… Read More

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Love Canal revisited

Issues — Wed, 01 Jul 1998 04:00:00 +0000

From August 1978 to May 1980, the nondescript industrial city of Niagara Falls, New York, named for one of the world’s great scenic wonders, acquired a perverse new identity as the site… Read More

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Computers Can Accelerate Productivity Growth

Issues — Wed, 01 Jul 1998 04:00:00 +0000

Conventional wisdom argues that rapid change in information technology over the past 20 years represents a paradigm shift, one perhaps as important as that caused by the electric dynamo near the turn… Read More

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Saving Medicare

Issues — Wed, 01 Jul 1998 04:00:00 +0000

For the past generation, ensuring access to health care and financial security for older Americans and their families under the Medicare program has been an important social commitment. The elderly are healthier… Read More

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No Productivity Boom for Workers

Issues — Wed, 01 Jul 1998 04:00:00 +0000

America’s love affair with the new technologies of the Information Age has never been more intense, but nagging questions remain about whether this passion is delivering on its promise to accelerate growth… Read More

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Making Guns Safer

Issues — Wed, 01 Jul 1998 04:00:00 +0000

Children are killing children by gunfire. These deaths are occurring in homes, on the streets, and in schools. When possible solutions to this problem are discussed, conversation most often focuses on the… Read More

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Toward a Global Science

Issues — Wed, 01 Jul 1998 04:00:00 +0000

In the early 1990s, the Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology, and Government published a series of reports emphasizing the need for a greatly increased role for science and scientists in international affairs.… Read More

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Something Old, Something New

Issues — Wed, 01 Jul 1998 04:00:00 +0000

First, I want to welcome back the National Academy of Engineering as a sponsor of Issues. NAE was an original sponsor and supported the magazine for more than a decade. During a… Read More

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