Space science in Texas means basic research as well as support for manned flights

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Texans hope that support for basic research in space science will offset the decline in manned space flight due to NASA budget cuts. NASA's funding affects Texas because the Johnson Space Center, which engineers all manned flights, is in Houston. Texas's small university laboratories and research institutions, such as the Lunar and Planetary Institute, are cooperating with out-of-state institutions as a means of maintaining the pace of space research. In addition, state officials believe that a new NASA-funded regional technology transfer center in Houston will advance the state's technological expansion.

Finance, Cover Story, Science and technology policy, Texas, Space sciences, United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Lunar and Planetary Institute

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Science and sentimentality

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The International Whaling Commission's (IWC) scientific committee is working on a revised management procedure to regulate commercial whaling after the IWC allows it to resume, but the unscientific opposition of some IWC countries to even limited whaling may undermine the committee's efforts. In 1982, the IWC declared a whaling moratorium intended to protect some endangered species. Now Iceland, Japan and Norway are pressing the IWC to partially lift the ban, but compromise will be hard to reach because non-whaling countries do not need the ban lifted and are being pressured by extremists.

Laws, regulations and rules, International aspects, Column, Protection and preservation, Whales, Whaling, Fishery management, International Whaling Commission

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Science's neglected legacy

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Science needs larger and more sophisticated databases, but they must be developed effectively and not left to chance and improvisation.

Information services, Databases

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