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1 online resource (248 pages) |
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""HEADLINE NEWS, SCIENCE VIEWS""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""HEADLINE NEWS, SCIENCE VIEWS""; ""1 SCIENCE AND NON-SCIENTISTS""; ""GETTING THE FACTS STRAIGHT ABOUT SCIENCE""; ""WHO KILLED YANKEE INGENUITY?""; ""ON AN ANTIDOTE FOR SCIENCE PHOBIA""; ""PHYSICS FOR POETS, SCIENCE FOR SOCIETY""; ""MAKING SENSE OF A RISK-FILLED WORLD""; ""MAKING THE LINK BETWEEN SCIENCE AND POLITICS""; ""2 TECHNOLOGY IN EVERYDAY LIFE""; ""MAKING OUR SCHOOL BUSES SAFER""; ""A COMPUTER FUTURE WITHOUT A HEART""; ""TOWARD MOTORING SMART""; ""EASING THE CRUNCH AT OUR AIRPORTS"" |
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""Protecting our phones from terrorism""""the new arsenal of democracy""; ""building houses people can afford""; ""designing for an aging america""; ""preparing for the next big natural disaster""; ""our 1.5 trillion investment""; ""tough choices about rising sea level""; ""3 a sustainable future""; ""uncertainty and the greenhouse effect""; ""saving sea turtles""; ""who owns antarctica?""; ""genetically engineered organisms: monsters or miracles?""; ""rethinking radioactive waste disposal""; ""toward a sustainable agriculture""; ""the paradox of pesticides"" |
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""Agriculture and water quality""""exploring the mysteries of 'deep ecology'""; ""4 the nation's health""; ""food and health""; ""the spitting image: baseball players and chewing tobacco""; ""clearing our vision about alcohol abuse""; ""needless infertility""; ""who is going to deliver baby?""; ""accidents are not always accidental""; ""changing behavior to limit the spread of aids""; ""the dilemma of aids drug experiments""; ""identifying what works in medicine""; ""5 making sense of social problems""; ""confronting the facts in american race relations"" |
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""HOMELESS CHILDREN: AN EMERGING TRAGEDY""""THE GENDER WAGE GAP""; ""CHILD CARE IN DISARRAY""; ""EFFECTIVE DRUG TREATMENT""; ""MAKING SENSE OF STATISTICS IN THE COURTROOM""; ""THE ECONOMICS OF REALITY""; ""6 SCIENTIFIC HORIZONS""; ""KNOWING ABOUT TREES""; ""TOGETHER TO MARS�BUT WITH DELIBERATION""; ""THE LESS-NOTICED WORLDWIDE REVOLUTION""; ""SEARCHING FOR BURIED TREASURE""; ""THE ENERGY CRISIS BEYOND THE PERSIAN GULF""; ""THE CHALLENGE TO HUMAN UNIQUENESS""; ""MAKING A MAP OF THE HUMAN CHROMOSOMES""; ""DEVELOPING NEW CONTRACEPTIVE OPTIONS""; ""FAREWELL TO THE NIGHT SKY"" |
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""Setting our science priorities in order""""7 international affairs""; ""getting even in international technology""; ""the growing international competition for brain power""; ""industrial cooperation in japan: it's not what we think""; ""offering tools for soviet democracy""; ""the surprising reality about hunger""; ""vaccines for the developing world""; ""easing the fear of giving birth""; ""new crops for south america's farmers""; ""8 difficult choices""; ""life and death: more than an expert opinion""; ""the new diagnostics and the power of biologic information"" |
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""Harvesting organs from anencephalic infants"" |
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Science news -- United States
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Science -- Social aspects -- United States
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Technology -- Social aspects -- United States
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Public health -- United States.
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Medical policy -- United States
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Medical policy
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Public health
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Science news
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Science -- Social aspects
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Technology -- Social aspects
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United States
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Jarmul, David
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Press, Frank
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| ISBN |
9780309582971 |
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0309582970 |
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