I think it was in the spring of 1988 that I visited
Washington, D.C., to explore the potential for moving from academic science into
public policy. I had set up an
informational interview at AAAS and was sitting in their library waiting for my
meeting to begin. After browsing the
shelves for a few seconds, and guided only by karmic randomness, I pulled down
a book called Lost at the Frontier,
by Deborah Shapley and Rustum Roy.
