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January 2004 Newsletter

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In This Issue

News

  • Congressional Fellows Program Honored by Congress
  • Final Funding Legislation on Administration's Nuclear Weapons Initiatives

Articles

  • 30 Years of APS Congressional Fellows: Looking Back and Looking Forwards, Sherri G. Stephan
  • Examining an Alternative Approach to the Science Congressional Fellowship Program: The D.C.-Academia Revolving Door,  David Hafemeister
  • Illicit Trafficking of Weapons-Usable Nuclear Material: Facts and Uncertainties, Lyudmila Zaitseva and Friedrich Steinhausler

Commentary

  • Benjamin Franklin – America’s First Civic Scientist, Bo Hammer
  • Space Solar Power: An Idea Whose Time Will Never Come? Steve Fetter

Reviews

  • Win-Win Ecology, by Michael L. Rosenzweig, reviewed by Bernard Cohen
  • Report of the American Physical Society Study Group on Boost-phase Intercept Systems for National Missile Defense: Scientific and Technical Issue, by APS Study Group, reviewed by Michael DuVernois
  • Freedom Evolves by Daniel C. Dennett, reviewed by Gary Prezeau

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