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[Reading the World] Science and Global Warmiing: This was the so-called TTAPS report, whichattempted to quantify more rigorously the atmospheric effects, with theadded credibility to be gained from an actual computer model of climate. At the heart of the TTAPS undertaking was another equation, neverspecifically expressed, but one that could be paraphrased as follows: Ds = Wn Ws Wh Tf Tb Pt Pr Pe etc (The amount of tropospheric dust = # warheads x size warheads x warheaddetonation height x flammability of targets x Target burn duration xParticles entering the Troposphere x Particle reflectivity x Particleendurance, and so on.) The similarity to the Drake equation is striking.

[Press.uchicago.edu] Freeman, Richard B.: The Welfare State in Transition: Freeman, Richard B., Robert H. Topel, and Birgitta Swedenborg, editors The Welfare State in Transition: Reforming the Swedish Model.

[Informationweek.com] InformationWeek | Business Innovation Powered By Technology: Eventually, as wages rise abroad, prosperity can return here, says Freeman, who also is director of the National Bureau of Economic Research's labor-studies program and a senior research fellow at the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance. "But," he writes, "the transition period is likely to be lengthy and difficult--more formidable than that associated with the recovery of Europe and Japan after World War II."

[Neweconomist.blogs.com] New Economist: Mind the (science) gap: The Freeman paper appears to be Does Globalization of the Scientific/Engineering Workforce Threaten U.S. Economic Leadership?, published last month as NBER Working Paper 11457 (a draft is available free here). This was writtten as part of the NBER Science and Engineering Workforce Project, set up in 2001.

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