Strengthening U.S. competitiveness; Boosting the service sector; Engineering advocacy; Setting standards; Questioning collaborative R&D; Sandia as science park?; A permanent research credit; Stopping family violence; Nuclear defense.

Kevin Finneran
The Age of Hubris and Complacency.

President's budget would cut FY 2000 R&D spending by $1 billion; Legality of federal funding for human stem cell research debated; Bill loosening encryption software controls gains support.

As invasive species threat intensifies, U.S. steps up fight.

John A. Benson, Jr.
Stanley J. Watson, Jr.
Janet E. Joy
From Marijuana to Medicine

Richard L. Wagner, Jr.
Edward D. Arthur
Paul T. Cunningham
Plutonium, Nuclear Power, and Nuclear Weapons

Jonathan B. Tucker
Bioweapons from Russia: Stemming the Flow

Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr.
The Stealth Battleship

Robert D. Atkinson
Randolph H. Court
The New Economy: How Is It Different?

Environmental activism (Review of The Promise and Peril of Environmental Justice)

The perils of keeping secrets (Review of Secrecy: The American Experience, by Daniel Patrick Moynihan. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press)

Collaborative R&D, European style (Review of Technology Policy in the European Union)

The NAS Building.

David C. Mowery

America's Industrial Resurgence: How Strong, How Durable?

Peter Samuel

Traffic Congestion: A Solvable Problem

Greg Mello
Andrew Lichterman
William Weida

The Stockpile Stewardship Charade