Not enough U.S. engineers?; Technology evolution in India and China; Advice for India; China as innovator; Education and U.S. competitiveness; Emissions reduction; Assessing science’s social effects

Major bills to boost U.S. competitiveness advance; Support grows for capping and trading carbon emissions; Bill to establish national ocean policy falters; Senate committee approves energy package; Congress boosts budget spending limit, despite veto threat

Kevin Finneran
Getting Our Act Together

Ronald Sandler
Christopher J. Bosso
Tiny Technology, Enormous Implications

How the Internet Got Its Groove (Review of From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism)

No model for policymaking (Review of Useless Arithmetic: Why Environmental Scientists Can’t Predict the Future)

The politics of jobs (Review of America Works: Critical Thoughts on the Exceptional U.S. Labor Market)

Laboratory Life

Daniel Sarewitz

Does Science Policy Matter?

David Molden
Charlotte De Fraiture
Frank Rijsberman

Water Scarcity: The Food Factor

James E. Rosenbaum
Julie Redline
Jennifer L. Stephan

Community College: The Unfinished Revolution

Robert E. Litan
Lesa Mitchell
E. J. Reedy

The University As Innovator: Bumps in the Road