Headline news, science views /
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
National Academy Press,
1991.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Getting the facts straight about science / Bill Cosby
- Who killed Yankee ingenuity? / Steven L. Goldman
- On an antidote for science phobia / Ben Patrusky
- Physics for poets, science for society / Leon M. Lederman
- Making sense of a risk-filled world / John Ahearne
- Making the link between science and politics / Thomas H. Kean
- Making our school buses safer / Charley V. Wootan
- A computer future without a heart / Samuel H. Fuller and Damian M. Saccocio
- Toward motoring smart / Robert D. Ervin and Kan Chen
- Easing the crunch at our airports / Joseph M. Sussman
- Protecting our phones from terrorism / John C. McDonald
- The new arsenal of democracy / Robert B. Kurtz
- Building houses people can afford / Ezra Ehrenkrantz.
- Designing for an aging America / Sara J. Czaja
- Preparing for the next big natural disaster / Richard E. Hallgren
- Our $1.5 trillion investment / Robert F. Jortberg
- Tough choices about rising sea level / Robert G. Dean
- Uncertainty and the greenhouse effect / Robert M. White
- Saving sea turtles / John J. Magnuson
- Who owns Antarctica? / Hugh Downs
- Genetically engineered organisms : monsters or miracles? / Nina Fedoroff
- Rethinking radioactive waste disposal / Frank L. Parker
- Toward a sustainable agriculture / John Pesek
- The paradox of pesticides / Michael R. Taylor and Charles M. Benbrook
- Agriculture and water quality / Jan van Schilfgaarde
- Exploring the mysteries of "deep ecology" / James D. Nations.
- Food and health / Arno G. Motulsky
- The spitting image : baseball players and chewing tobacco / John C. Greene
- Clearing our vision about alcohol abuse / Robert D. Sparks
- Needless infertility / Howard W. Jones, Jr., Roger J. Bulger
- Accidents are not always accidental / Susan S. Gallagher
- Changing behavior to limit the spread of AIDS / Heather Miller and Marshall Becker
- The dilemma of AIDS drug experiments / Robin Weiss and Theodore Cooper
- Identifying what works in medicine / Samuel O. Thier
- Confronting the facts in American race relations / Gerald David Jaynes and Robin M. Williams, Jr.
- Homeless children : an emerging tragedy / Ellen L. Bassuk
- The gender wage gap / Robert T. Michael.