Today's date:
  Fall 2004


TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Comment:

The Haiku and the Double Helix

Between Being and Becoming ILYA PRIGOGINE
The Future Won't Look Like the Present STEPHEN HAWKING
Mindful Science PIET HUT
Science and Conscience JOHN POLANYI
Act Now to Keep New Technologies Out of Destructive Hands BILL JOY
Where Descartes Meets Darwin AMORY LOVINS
The Beginning of a New History FRANCIS FUKUYAMA, JACQUES ATTALI
Anthropo-Technology PETER SLOTERDIJK
Cloning: Central Planning of the 21st Century? NATHAN GARDELS
Biotech and the New Babel LEON KASS
Genome Ethics JAMES WATSON
The Limits of Cloning IAN WILMUT
The Century of BiologyCRAIG VENTER, DANIEL COHEN
Regenerative Medicine: Where the Genetic and Info Revolutions Converge WILLIAM HASELTINE
When the Body Goes, We Go GERALD EDELMAN
Challenge of the New Century: Finding an AIDS Vaccine DAVID BALTIMORE
Of Men and Microbes JOSHUA LEDERBERG
Biotech Can Feed 8 Billion NORMAN BORLAUG
Biotechnology Can Defeat Famine JIMMY CARTER
Unwarranted Fear of GMOs Harms Us All PAUL BOYER
Preempt Eco-Disaster DANIEL COHN-BENDIT
A Common-Sense Solution to Global Warming JAMES HANSEN
Plan Now to Avoid Megacities Nightmare MARIO MOLINA
When Galileo Meets Allah FARIDA FAOUZIA CHARFI
Road Map to a Muslim Renaissance AHMED ZEWAIL
Neo-Modern Ecology ALAIN TOURAINE
Islam and Scientific Fundamentalism MUNAWAR AHMAD ANEES
The Koran and Cloning MUNAWAR AHMAD ANEES
The Fate of the Religious Imagination CZESLAW MILOSZ