Caroline Wagner

National commitments to co-operation in science and technology by both the United States and Korea has helped bring Korea into the group of scientifically advanced countries; the new status of Korea means new policy challenges for the bilateral S and T relationship.

She had no choice but to get there before the plane crashed. If she waited and pretended to be drawn to the disaster like any other passer-by, she might not be able to reach the boy before he was dead too long... So begins the story of Hannah Kirkland, a woman with miraculous healing pwers who wants only to lead an ordinary life. For most of her twenty-seven years she's managed to stay out of the public eye, but the plane crash which she's heading to will change all that. Who is Hannah Kirkland, and what is the source of her amazing abilities? Does she have the right to live her life as she chooses, or do her abilities carry with them an obligation that takes away her freedom to choose? 'Missing Heaven' is a uniquely engrossing novel - suspenseful, psychological, romantic, supernatural - that will continue to resonate in the reader's mind, emotions and spirit long after the last page is read.

This document details U. S. government spending on cooperative science and technology activities with Russia. The U. S. government spent, on average, 300 million dollars a year during the 1990s to support science and technology (S&T) cooperation with Russia. This document details U. S. government spending on cooperative S&T activities with Russian partners. RAND collected and analyzed data at the project level and surveyed agency officials about specific projects and programs. These data were aggregated by spending into categories created by RAND. The report thus provides an analytic, cross-agency overview, presenting a broad picture of the U. S.-Russia S&T relationship between 1994 and 2000. The U. S. government's projects with Russia have a slightly different pattern than can be observed with other scientifically advanced countries: They are more binational in character, less collaborative, more technology-based, less of a shared effort, and dominated more by spending in aerospace applications. Reports from scientists working with Russian counterparts indicate that the United States is gaining significant scientific benefit from this joint collaboration. Although funding for the U. S.-Russia S&T relationship seems to have dropped in 2001, there has been a revived interest within the U. S. scientific community in working with Russia and an increase in the number of projects being considered.