Relieving traffic congestion; U.S. industrial resurgence; Nuclear stockpile stewardship; Engineering's image; Economics of biodiversity; Family violence; Rethinking nuclear energy; Protecting marine life; State conservation efforts.

Kevin Finneran
The Merits of Meritocracy.

Lab access restrictions sought in wake of Chinese espionage reports; Conservatives challenge science community on data access; Bills to protect confidentiality of medical data introduced; Controversial database protection bill reintroduced; Genetic testing issues reviewed; Budget resolution deals blow to R&D funding.

Major deficiencies remain in flood-control policies.

Bill Clinton
The Government-University Partnership in Science

Eamon M. Kelly
Bob H. Suzuki
Mary K. Gaillard
Education Reform for a Mobile Population

Diana Hicks
Kimberly Hamilton
Does university-industry collaboration adversely affect university research?

In defense of science (Review of Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science)

Making sense of the national labs (Review of Limited by Design: R&D Laboratories in the U.S. National Innovation System)

The terrorist threat (Review of The Ultimate Terrorists)

Countering terrorism (Review of America's Achilles' Heel: Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Terrorism and Covert Attack)

Greely Arctic Expedition.

George E. Brown, Jr.
James Turner

Reworking the Federal Role in Small Business Research

Susan E. Cozzens

Are New Accountability Rules Bad for Science?

Richard Florida

The Role of the University: Leveraging Talent, Not Technology