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1 online resource (256 pages) |
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""Headline News Science Views II""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""EDITOR'S NOTE""; ""1 SCIENCE AND SOCIETY ""; ""SCIENCE AND PSEUDO-SCIENCE""; ""CONFRONTING CREEPING COMPLEXITY""; ""THE REALITY BEYOND SCIENCE""; ""COLUMBUS DAY AND THE FRONTIER OF EXPLORATION""; ""2 EDUCATION ""; ""CHILDREN AND CALCULATORS""; ""ONE YEAR DOWN, NINE TO GO""; ""MINORITY STUDENTS AND MATHEMATICS""; ""A FAILING GRADE FOR SCHOOL TESTS""; ""GETTING SCIENTISTS INVOLVED IN SCIENCE EDUCATION""; ""BARBIE, MATH AND SCIENCE""; ""THE CONTRAST BETWEEN COMPUTERS AND CLASSROOMS"" |
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""Fooling ourselves about improving ourselves""""the overselling of the university""; ""3 the environment ""; ""the threat of climate change""; ""designing a cure for greenhouse warming""; ""aquatic ecosystems on the critical list""; ""science and the national parks""; ""assessing the threat of toxic waste sites""; ""protecting our nervous system from toxic chemicals""; ""indoor radon: hype versus help""; ""deciding who gets western water""; ""4 health care ""; ""a health agenda for children""; ""childhood vaccines: the parent's responsibility"" |
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""The neglected mental health problems of adolescents""""people's health, public health""; ""the states and health care innovation""; ""our disabled view of disability""; ""the deadly threat of emerging infections""; ""taking women's health problems seriously""; ""pregnant women, newborns and aids""; ""5 diet and nutrition ""; ""weight control: what really works""; ""serving up nutrition instead of guilt""; ""the foods in our future""; ""improving the safety of seafood""; ""fighting trim, fighting smart""; ""6 technology and transportation ""; ""getting serious about computer security"" |
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""Preventing oil spills here at home""""looking beyond potholes""; ""getting smart about 'intelligent' vehicles and highways""; ""a high-tech cure for traffic jams?""; ""crossing the bridge to more beautiful journeys""; ""launching into a new era in space""; ""7 the economy ""; ""mobilizing for a u.s. technology strategy""; ""the globalization of technology""; ""how to keep factory jobs from moving overseas""; ""designing for prosperity""; ""short-term thinking in a long-term world""; ""a new partnership in american science and technology""; ""work and family""; ""8 international affairs "" |
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""Beyond the brazil summit: conserving biodiversity""""faltering science in the rain forest""; ""the perilous state of science in the former soviet union""; ""guatemala: attacks on scientists and research""; ""the next refugee crisis and the u.s. response""; ""the science of middle east peace""; ""the unwelcome return of malaria""; ""creating a better atmosphere after the earth summit""; ""ravages of nature, disasters of mankind""; ""9 looking to the future ""; ""individuality and the brain""; ""mapping the human brain""; ""gene therapy: no longer just a concept"" |
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""Driving to a safer future"" |
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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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| ISBN |
9780309560467 |
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0309560462 |
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