Nuclear missile defense; Revamping the CIA; Preparing for terrorism; Bioterrorism; Reconsidering the SAT; Regulating university research; Ethanol for transportation; Fisheries management.

Kevin Finneran
Let (Most) Discussions Begin.

Federal R&D in FY 2002 will have biggest percentage gain in 20 years; Bush FY 2003 R&D budget increases would go mostly to DOD, NIH; New program for math and science teachers receives little funding; Congress considers additional antiterrorism legislation; Proposal for comprehensive cloning ban debated; Future is cloudy for Space Station as new NASA chief takes helm; Language on evolution attached to education law.

Bush reverses course, supports funding boost for nonproliferation efforts.

Wm. A. Wulf
George M. C. Fisher
A Makeover for Engineering Education

Andrew W. Bruckner
Life-Saving Products from Coral Reefs

Luther J. Carter
A Sweeter Deal at Yucca Mountain

Science at the CIA (Review of The Wizards of Langley: Inside the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology)

Imaginary hazards, imaginary cures (Review of Junk Science Judo: Self-Defense Against Health Scares & Scams)

Operation Deep Freeze.

Alexander E. Farrell
Lester B. Lave
Granger Morgan

Bolstering the Security of the Electric Power System

Adam D. Thierer

Solving the Broadband Paradox

Ruth Greenspan Bell
Clifford Russell

Environmental Policy for Developing Countries

Jonathan B. Tucker

Putting Teeth in the Biological Weapons Convention

Ivan Eland

Can the Pentagon Be Run Like a Business?

Daniel Sperling

Updating Automotive Research