Contents Spring 2001
From the NAS President
| Expanding Our Outreach Has Become a Mandate, Not an Option |
Education & Research
| How to Make Math Education Count | |
| Improving learning for students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade | |
| Testing English-Language Learners | |
| Are we setting certain students up for a fall? |
Engineering & Technology
| Watching the Ice Melt | |
| Using NASA's polar ice data to study global climate change | |
| The Future of Antipersonnel Landmines | |
| Promising technologies could replace at least some by 2006 |
Health, Safety, & Social Issues
| How Much Vitamin A? | |
| New research leads to updated recommended dietary guidelines | |
| Musculoskeletal Disorders and the Workplace | |
| What science has to say about job-related pain | |
| Clearing the Smoke Around Modified Tobacco | |
| Novel products need rigorous study -- and regulation |
Environment & Resources
| Relieving Congestion on the Heartland's Main Waterway | |
| Things the Army Corps of Engineers should consider before spending $1 billion | |
| Climate Change and Infectious Disease | |
| Is global warming causing diseases to spread? |
Meetings
| The Consequences of Uninsurance | |
| An IOM committee hears from experts in the field |
Opinion
| A New Strategy for Fighting Biological Terrorism | |
| by Donald Henderson | |
| What kind of infrastructure will be needed to counter an attack? |
Brief takes
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20/20
| Jump-starting an Appreciation for Science | |
| by May Berenbaum | |
| Using people's fear of insects to inspire imagination and cultivate interest |
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