BACK TO THE FEATURE INDEX This article is reposted, with permission, from the 29 November 2002 issue of Science magazine. Elections in the United States supply the timing for an odd kind of respiratory cycle. The hyperventilation of the preparation phase lapses, after the votes are counted, into the deep breathing of satisfaction or regret. Whichever it is, the postelection pause often offers opp...
It is rare for a single hospital death to become the subject of multiple-day stories in the major national newspapers and play on one evening television news program after another. But the tragic demise of a young volunteer subject at Johns Hopkins Hospital did. Why? In matters medical, a lot depends on trust. In the public mind, Johns Hopkins may be the medical gold standard; the very week of th...
New developments in European science and science policy suggest that a new landscape is forming, one in which scientists move about as freely in Europe as they go between Massachusetts and California in the United States. The great scientific traditions of Europe have had strong national identities; one naturally thinks of Pasteur as French, Newton as British, Pauli as German. But in the movement...
