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dation from 1973 to 1976. Prior to his government service, he was president of the 

 Carnegie-Mellon University from 1965 to 1972 and professor of aeronautics and 

 astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for 20 years. Dr. Stever has 

 served as the National Academy of Engineering's foreign secretary and as chairman 

 of the National Research Council's Committee on Space and of the Panel of Techni- 

 cal Evaluation of NASA's Proposed Redesign of the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket 

 Booster. He is a member of both the National Academies of Sciences and Engineer- 

 ing. 



JOHN P. WHITE was, until recently, the director for the Center for Business 

 and Goverrunent at the John E Kennedy School of Government at Harvard Univer- 

 sity. He took over the program following his active involvement in both the Clinton 

 and Perot 1992 presidential campaigns. He was general manager of the Integration 

 and Systems Products Division and vice president of Eastman Kodak Company and 

 the chief executive officer and chairman of the board of Interactive Systems Corpo- 

 ration from 1981 until it was sold to Eastman Kodak in 1988. Previously, he served 

 in the federal goverrunent as the deputy director of the Office of Management and 

 Budget and as the assistant secretary of defense, manpower, reserve affairs and 

 logistics. Mr. White resigned from the committee on June 22, 1995, to become 

 deputy secretary of defense. 



Staff 



NORMAN METZGER is executive director of the Commission on Physical 

 Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications, one of the major program units of the 

 National Research Council. Prior to assuming this position in 1990, he was deputy 

 executive officer of the National Research Council. He has been with the Council 

 since 1975, and before that held positions with the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, the American Chemical Society, and the Sloan-Kettering 

 Institute. He holds a degree in chemistry and was a Sloan-Rockefeller fellow in 

 advanced science writing. He has written books on chemical research and energy 

 supply and demand, as well as numerous articles on science and technology for 

 Popular Science, New Science, and other publications. 



ROBERT M. COOK-DEEGAN is a physician-molecular biologist, formerly 

 director of the Institute of Medicine's Division of Biobehavioral Sciences and Mental 

 Disorders. He has supervised eight major projects and numerous smaller efforts 

 since joining the Institute of Medicine in early 1991. He previously directed several 

 studies for the Office ofTechnology Assessment, where he was a senior associate, 

 and was acting director of the Biomedical Ethics Advisory Committee, an analytical 

 support agency of the U.S. Congress in 1988 and 1989. He has authored over 100 

 articles on various topics and recently published a book. The Gene Wars: Science, 

 Politics and the Human Genome, with WW Norton & Co., New York (1994). He 

 obtained his bachelor's degree in chemistry from Harvard College in 1975 and his 

 MD from the University of Colorado in 1979. 



CHRISTOPHER T HILL is professor of public policy and technology in the 

 Institute of Public Policy at George Mason University. Before joining George Mason 

 University, Dr. Hill was at the RAND Critical Technologies Institute. He also served 



