Toilet to Tap: The Future of Water

. by Syed Ahmed

Singapore used to depend heavily on Malaysia for treated water, but now it uses state-of-the-art technology to recycle sewage and other wastewater, producing water that is claimed to be as pure as distilled water.

How a $3.8 Billion Government Investment Created a Research Revolution

. by Kent Harrington

The fabled Human Genome Project—the $3.8-billion international mapping effort led by the United States that ran from 1988 to 2003—was one of the last "big government" research projects, although the internet, originally a small, DARPA project, was quietly gaining momentum in the background. The ambitiously stated HGP goal, "to understand the human genome," felt t oskeptics a little too Star-Treky, representing the rump-end of Kenndy-Johnson-era big government idealism. I don't even want to talk about the loss caused by the long-aborted Texas Super Collider.

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