Cautious arms control; School politics are local; The futures of the university; Agriculture and environment; Whither federal electricity?; Nourishing a growing world; Viewing Earth from space; A new environmentalism; Better relations with Japan; Rethinking government support for science; Recounting coastal population.

Kevin Finneran
Is Anybody Buying Policy?

Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr.
Finally-A Real Defense Debate

Amy E. Smithson
Stay the Course on Chemical Weapons Ban

William H. Avery
Walter G. Berl
Solar Energy from the Tropical Oceans

Putting a price tag on nature (Review of Nature's Services: Societal Dependence on Natural Ecosystems)

Future implausible (Review of Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century)

Inventing the Future (Review of Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century)

The Launch of the U.S. Space Program.

Kenneth Flamm

An Economic Strategy to Control Arms Proliferation

Pete V. Domenici

Future Perspectives on Nuclear Issues

Gilbert A. Valverde
William H. Schmidt

Refocusing U.S. Math and Science Education

Greg J. Duncan
Jeanne Brooks-gunn

Welfare's New Rules: A Pox on Children

Thomas G. McInerney
Erik R. Pages

Bolstering Military Strength By Downsizing the Pentagon