Search Results 200 Results Found for Fall 2012 Global Bioethics: Hopes, Fears, and New Voices Deborah Gardner, Jennifer Liu During the 1990s, James Grifo, a physician and researcher at New York University, had been working to develop a technique to help treat certain kinds of infertility. Although in vitro fertilization (IVF) … Read More Winter 2013 Changing the Way We Account for College Credit Amy Laitinen For centuries, the United States has been the envy of the world in terms of its higher education system. But now we are largely coasting on a bygone reputation, obscuring the… Read More Winter 2010 On the Trails of the Glaciers Fabiano Ventura On the Trails of the Glaciers is a multidisciplinary project, combining photography and science, to study the effects of climate change on the glaciers of the most important mountains of the world.… Read More Summer 2012 Mother of Invention Edward Tenner High-handed corporate monopoly and high-minded national treasure, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) was a unique project of this country’s pragmatism and for decades the envy of the world in extending … Read More Winter 2011 Archives – Winter 2011 DAVID MAISEL, The Lake Project 3, Chromogenic print, 29 × 29 inches, 2001. Image courtesy of the artist/Haines Gallery. The Lake Project 3 Photographer David Maisel’s early work, such as the… Read More Spring 2011 Forum – Spring 2011 Kenneth P. Green, Victor Van Lint, Gary Clyde Hufbauer, Lenny Mendonca, Michael P. Ryan, Arnold M. Lund, Annuska Perkins, Susanna Hornig Priest, Matthew E. Kahn Technology innovation: setting the right policies In “Fighting Innovation Mercantilism” (Issues, Winter 2011), Stephen Ezell has identified a truly vexing problem: the proclivity of important countries (notably China) to… Read More Winter 2011 Making Stories Visible: The Task for Bioethics Commissions Adam Briggle, Meera Lee Sethi A little before lunchtime on December 6, 1957, when the United States made its first attempt to match the triumph of Russia’s Sputnik 1 by launching its own Vanguard TV3 satellite into… Read More Winter 2011 Time for Climate Plan B William B. Bonvillian Policymakers in the United States and elsewhere have assumed for 15 years that putting a price on carbon would be an effective strategy for addressing climate change. Nations would price carbon emissions,… Read More Winter 2010 New Bedfellows JD Talasek During the past few decades, a growing amount of mental real estate has been devoted to discussing art and science, and the level of attention increased markedly in 2009 as we marked… Read More Fall 2010 Goddam Humans Kevin Finneran The social sciences have long been considered the runt in the litter of the science family, if not the bastard child of wild conjecture with deluded mathematics. Broad-minded practitioners of the physical… Read More Summer 2010 Book Review: Futurama Martin Wachs It goes without saying that most Americans love their cars. Yet today there is a great deal of debate about the appropriate future role of the automobile. For decades, cars have been… Read More Fall 2010 Technophilia’s Big Tent Edward Tenner As the effects of climate change and other environmental stresses become more apparent, some technological prophets are alarmed, while others are more sanguine than ever. Jared Diamond has gone from Guns, Germs, … Read More Summer 2010 Bringing U.S. Roads into the 21st Century Stephen Ezell Information technology (IT) has transformed many industries, from education to health care to government, and is now in the early stages of transforming countries’ transportation systems. Although many think that improving a… Read More Summer 2010 A Cell’s Life Norman Fost Here’s a simple statement most Americans would agree with. If tissue removed during an operation is about to be thrown out with the garbage and has no identifying information, it should be… Read More Winter 2010 Perennial Grains Food Security for the Future Jerry D. Glover, John P. Reganold Colorful fruits and vegetables piled to overflowing at a farmer’s market or in the produce aisle readily come to mind when we think about farming and food production. Such images run counter… Read More Spring 2010 Book Review: Job prospects David M. Hart In this peculiar little book, six prominent economists—the two listed authors plus four distinguished commentators, all writing separately—take stock of the possibility that expanding international trade in services, particularly service imports to… Read More Winter 2004 Forum – Winter 2004 Jeff Bingaman, Henry Kelly, Dwight E. Adams, Lawrence M. Solan, Peter M. Tiersma, Max M. Houck, William J. Bratton, Mary Beeton, Simon A. Cole, Stephen M. Stigler, Michael Cherry, Larry Meyer, Nils J. Diaz, Benn Tannenbaum, Jack Ward Thomas, Jay Thomas Watson, Sue Bucheger, David Oughton, Naomi Oreskes, Eugene B. Kogan, Edward J. Markey Forensic science, no consensus In “A House with No Foundation” (Issues, Fall 2003), Michael Risinger and Michael Saks raise what they perceive to be serious questions regarding the reliability… Read More Spring 2009 In Defense of Biofuels, Done Right Keith Kline, Virginia H. Dale, Russell Lee, Paul Leiby Biofuels have been getting bad press, not always for good reasons. Certainly important concerns have been raised, but preliminary studies have been misinterpreted as a definitive condemnation of biofuels. One recent magazine… Read More Fall 1999 Commercial Satellite Imagery Comes of Age Ann M. Florini, Yahya Dehqanzada Since satellites started photographing Earth from space nearly four decades ago, their images have inspired excitement, introspection, and, often, fear. Like all information, satellite imagery is in itself neutral. But satellite imagery… Read More Fall 2008 Restructuring the Military Lawrence J. Korb, Max A. Bergmann After more than five years of war in Iraq and almost seven in Afghanistan, the U.S. military is facing a crisis not seen since the end of the Vietnam War. Equipment shortages,… Read More Previous
