NATIONAL ISSUES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 1993 -- Copyright -- PREFACE -- Contents -- NATIONAL ISSUES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 1993 -- I SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LEADERSHIP IN AMERICAN GOVERNMENT Ensuring The Best Presidential Appointments -- SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LEADERSHIP IN AMERICAN GOVERNMENT Ensuring the Best Presidential Appointments -- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY -- SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LEADERSHIP IN AMERICAN GOVERNMENT Ensuring the Best Presidential Appointments -- THE PROBLEM -- CAUSAL FACTORS -- AMELIORATING ACTIONS -- Improve Recruitment -- The President's Science and Technology Advisor as Recruiter -- Involvement of Departments and Agencies -- A Special S&T Unit in the White House Personnel Office -- Reduce Hurdles and Disincentives -- Adopt Reasonable Conflict-of-Interest and Postgovernment Employment Restrictions -- Reduce the Disincentives to Government Service -- Streamline Administrative Actions -- Make Jobs More Attractive -- II CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY Establishing United States Leadership Under The Climate Change Convention -- CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY Establishing United States Leadership under the Climate Change Convention -- THE THREAT OF CLIMATE CHANGE -- THE CONTEXT FOR INTERNATIONAL AND DOMESTIC ACTION -- REDUCING OR OFFSETTING GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS -- Energy Policy -- Halocarbon Emissions -- Forest Offsets -- ENHANCING ADAPTATION TO GREENHOUSE WARMING IN THE UNITED STATES -- Helping Human Systems Adapt -- Helping Natural Systems Adapt -- IMPROVING KNOWLEDGE FOR FUTURE DECISIONS -- EXERCISING INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP -- PROMOTING THE CONTROL OF POPULATION GROWTH -- CONCLUDING COMMENTS -- III TECHNOLOGY POLICY AND INDUSTRIAL INNOVATION The Federal Government's Role -- TECHNOLOGY POLICY AND INDUSTRIAL INNOVATION The Federal Government's Role -- THE RATIONALE FOR CHANGE -- STRENGTHENING CURRENT GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS.

PROMOTING INVESTMENT IN PRE-COMMERCIAL R&D -- A CIVILIAN TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION -- IV TOWARD MORE EFFECTIVE HEALTH CARE REFORM Selected Issues From Reports Of The Institute Of Medicine -- TOWARD MORE EFFECTIVE HEALTH CARE REFORM Selected Issues from Reports of the Institute of Medicine,... -- TOWARD MORE EFFECTIVE HEALTH CARE REFORM -- QUALITY ASSESSMENT AND IMPROVEMENT -- VALUE IN HEALTH CARE -- SPECIAL POPULATIONS: CHILDREN AND PREGNANT WOMEN -- HEALTH CARE DATA AND INFORMATION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- V SUMMARIES OF SELECTED RECENT REPORTS OF THE NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL -- Summaries of Selected Recent Reports of the National Research Council -- IMPROVING AMERICA'S DIET AND HEALTH -- NUCLEAR POWER: TECHNICAL AND INSTITUTIONAL OPTIONS FOR THE FUTURE -- AUTOMOTIVE FUEL ECONOMY: HOW FAR SHOULD WE GO? -- NEW APPROACHES TO REDUCING OZONE POLLUTION -- HIGH SPEED TRAINS -- DOMESTIC AIR TRANSPORT SINCE DEREGULATION -- DISPOSING OF HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE: A NEW APPROACH -- U.S. EXPORT CONTROLS IN THE POST-COLD WAR ENVIRONMENT -- U.S. TRADE IN THE WORLD ECONOMY -- UNDERSTANDING AND PREVENTING VIOLENCE.