I began working at Issues in mid-1987, and 32 years later it's ... what?-sobering? enlightening? depressing? bewildering? astonishing?-to reflect on how science, technology, and health policy has and hasn't changed. Many topics are as timely now as they were then. During my first year, we published articles on recruiting more women into science and engineering, improving aviation safety, tapping immigrant talent, reducing plastic trash, overseeing new biotechnologies, retraining workers amid technological change, rethinking the war on cancer, and making universities more responsive to economic needs. Since then, Issues has travelled a Mobius loop of topics, taking us through innumerable twists and turns and often landing us back where we started.
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