DOE and the national labs; Science funding squeeze; Making schools better; Technology policy; Telecommunications in the global market; Limiting scientist immigration; No DARPA for NIH; Environment: a reasonable view.

Kevin Finneran
Straight Talk.

Balanced budget agreement bodes ill for science; House approves patent system reform bill; Space station construction delayed; Cloning raises difficult issues for Congress; Clinton speaks out on science; Air quality debate intensifies; Large Hadron Collider backed.

Government still too good at keeping secrets; Deciphering cryptography policy.

George E. Brown, Jr.
An Investment Budget

Daniel Sarewitz
Social Change and Science Policy

Technology and growth (Review of The Sources of Economic Growth)

AIDS and objectivity (Review of Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge)

University rankings revisited (Review of The Rise of American Research Universities)

Shelter Island Conference.

Don C. Schmitz
Daniel Simberloff

Biological Invasions: A Growing Threat

Carol J. Rowland Hogue

Missing the Boat on Pregnancy Prevention

George R. Heaton, Jr.

Engaging an Independent Japan

Kenan Patrick Jarboe
Joel Yudken

Time to Get Serious About Workplace Change