Ecosystem assessment; Preparing for disaster; Managing agricultural pests; Conserving wildlife; Next-generation fighter planes; Plutonium politics; The evolving university.

Report calls genetically altered plants safe; White House to boost oversight; Republican senators clash at hearing on stem cell research; NASA reexamines faster, better, cheaper strategy; Ehlers introduces three bills aimed at bolstering science education.

Charles F. Larson
The Boom in Industry Research

David H. Guston
Retiring the Social Contract for Science

Robert Frodeman
Carl Mitcham
Beyond the Social Contract Myth

Science and the law (Review of Legal Alchemy: The Use & Misuse of Science in the Law)

Preserving privacy (Review of Database Nation: The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century)

Cecil Green.

David Greenberg
Mary Graham

Improving Communication About New Food Technologies