Contents                                 Fall 2004

Forum

Military transformation; Misguided drug policy; Preventing blackouts; Forest management; Scientific workforce; Climate change; Less power to the patent?; Better watershed management.

Editor's Journal

Kevin Finneran
Just Say Yes to Drug Trial Information.

From the Hill

Nondefense R&D budgets face major squeeze; DHS relaxes visa policy on foreign students and scientists; House restricts NIH travel and research.

Update

U.S. commitment to human spaceflight beyond Earth orbit still in doubt.

Perspectives

David H. Guston
Forget Politicizing Science. Let’s Democratize Science!

Perspectives

Michael Csaszar
Bhavya Lal
Improving Health in Developing Countries

Perspectives

John Payne
Precollege Science Teachers Need Better Training

Cartoon

Article

Carl Safina
Sarah Chasis
Saving the Oceans

Article

James N. Sanchirico
Susan S. Hanna
Sink or Swim Time for U.S. Fishery Policy

Article

Lewis M. Branscomb
Science, Politics, and U.S. Democracy

Article

Robert O. Work
Small Combat Ships and the Future of the Navy

Article

Nigel Purvis
Building a Transatlantic Biotech Partnership

Article

William B. Bonvillian
Meeting the New Challenge to U.S. Economic Competitiveness

Article

M. Granger Morgan
Elaine Newton
Protecting Public Anonymity

Book Review

Ain’t it hard? (Review of The Working Poor: Invisible in America)

Book Review

Where’s Oppie? (Review of Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma)

Archives

Henry Bryant Bigelow.