For nearly forty years, using recombinant DNA tools, researchers, and then businesses, have genetically engineered organisms by transferring naturally occurring genes from one organism into another
From Athens to America calls for the reversal of the withdrawal of the character-forming function from the political domain, arguing for public sector—federal, state, and local—involvement in character formation.
Space was at the center of America's imagination in the 1960s
This book examines the role of private firms in the American water and wastewater industry
Many scientists today are working to retard the aging process in humans so as to increase both life expectancy and the quality of life
America's elderly population is soaring, presenting numerous challenges for policymakers in the United States
As America's most dysfunctional big city, Detroit faces urban decay, population losses, fractured neighborhoods with impoverished households, an uneducated, unskilled workforce, too few jobs, a shrinking tax base, budgetary shortfalls, and inadequate public schools
Despite the best hopes of the past half century, black urban pathologies persist in America
Twenty-first-century US policymakers face a great challenge: How can federal government help more people achieve the... Læs mere