GLOBAL SCIENCE NEEDS BETTER INTERNATIONAL MARKETPLACES

Jesse H. Ausubel, director of Rockefeller University's Program for the Human Environment, discusses the serious problems facing United State s science as it approaches the year 2000. He considers the role the U. S. plays in the global science community, and urges creation of ''inte rnational marketplaces,'' where researchers and policy officials can g ather, exchange ideas, and, in general, conduct the increasingly compl ex business of science.