Technology Review: July 1997
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What we Don´t Know
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Some critics claim that all the great questions in science have already been answered or are simply unanswerable. But a leading defender argues that reports of science´s death have been greatly exaggerated.
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- Message from the Comet
- Phenomena like the comet Hale-Bopp can reinspire us to communicate with and enlighten one another.
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- Save the Helium
- A swing of the congressional budget ax has killed the strategic helium reserve, even though public and private research depends on steady suppliles of the element.
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Features
- Marking Time
- Our Photo Contest Winners
- The Dilemmas of Experimenting on People
- A half-century after the creation of the Nuremberg Code of research ethics, scientists still struggle to strike a balance between human rights and medical progress.
- When Failure is Not an Option
- Some organizations seem to have purged "human error," operating highly complex and hazardous technological systems essentially without mistakes. How do they do it?
- The Gene Doctor Is In
- The physician who has written the book linking genes to disease explains how the next wave of genetic research will affect our lives.
- Without a Car in the World
- Trips take longer, and you have to bum rides, but life is sweeter when you´re not tied to a ton of rolling steel.
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