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Spring 1998 Update

Issues — Wed, 01 Apr 1998 05:00:00 +0000

Progress begins on controlling trade in light arms
In an article in the Fall 1995 Issues (“Stemming the Lethal Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons”), I urged that increased international attention… Read More

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Wake-up Call for Academia

Issues — Wed, 01 Apr 1998 05:00:00 +0000

Academic Duty is an important book. It provides a corrective to what Donald Kennedy, former president of Stanford University, points to as the academy’s one-sided focus: academic freedom and rights at the… Read More

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Unleashing Innovation in Electricity Generation

Issues — Wed, 01 Apr 1998 05:00:00 +0000

This nation’s electric power industry is undergoing profound change. Just when lawmakers are replacing regulated monopolies with competitive entrepreneurs, a new generation of highly efficient, low-emission, modular power technologies is coming of… Read More

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Scorched-Earth Fishing

Issues — Wed, 01 Apr 1998 05:00:00 +0000

The economic and social consequences of overfishing, along with the indiscriminate killing of other marine animals and the loss of coastal habitats, have stimulated media coverage of problems in the oceans. Attention… Read More

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Patented Genes: An Ethical Appraisal

Issues — Wed, 01 Apr 1998 05:00:00 +0000

On May 18, 1995, about 200 religious leaders representing 80 faiths gathered in Washington, D.C., to call for a moratorium on the patenting of genes and genetically engineered creatures. In their “Joint… Read More

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Extending Manufacturing Extension

Issues — Wed, 01 Apr 1998 05:00:00 +0000

At the start of this decade, U.S. efforts to help smaller manufacturers use technology were patchy and poorly funded. A handful of states ran industrial extension programs to aid companies in upgrading… Read More

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The Least-Cost Way to Control Climate Change

Issues — Wed, 01 Apr 1998 05:00:00 +0000

In December 1997 in Kyoto, Japan, representatives of 159 countries agreed to a protocol to limit the world’s emissions of greenhouse gases. Now comes the hard part: how to achieve the reductions.… Read More

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Kyoto and Beyond

Issues — Wed, 01 Apr 1998 05:00:00 +0000

The international agreement concluded in Kyoto, Japan, during the first two weeks of December 1997 to limit greenhouse gas emissions to forestall climate warming is variously portrayed as a success or a… Read More

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Cloning news

Issues — Wed, 01 Apr 1998 05:00:00 +0000

Gina Kolata, a science reporter for the New York Times, was the first to write about the cloning of Dolly in a U.S. newspaper. Cloning and its media coverage are the… Read More

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Implementing the Kyoto Protocol

Issues — Wed, 01 Apr 1998 05:00:00 +0000

The Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is an agreement of historic proportions. Finally, the world is treating global warming seriously. The protocol could put us on… Read More

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