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...Ford begins 11 years of construction of the Rouge complex in Dearborn, Mich., which becomes an icon of American industry, an ore-to-assembly, completely vertical enterprise
...higgledy-piggledy complex of tired-looking trailers parked alongside grain silos and stock pens, four white-coated scientists are investigating crimes with the tools of 21st century forensics. They're testing hairs found on a blanket wrapped around a victim of rape and murder, trying to match them to a suspect's dog. They're analyzing the DNA of two Pekingese killed during a robbery to determine if a suspect was at the scene of the crime. They're looking for a match between stray hairs left at a murder scene and DNA taken from the suspect...
...alone under John Rowe, who is retiring, new CEO Ronald A. Williams has a tough act to follow. But rather than focus on the health insurer's Wall Street performance and the growth of its medical membership, which now tops 14 million, Williams is seeking to chip away at complex problems. "We have work to do with the 45 million people who are uninsured in this country," says Williams. To help bridge that gap, he is touting, among other initiatives, a program aimed at insuring college and university students. Williams, 56, is the first black CEO in Aetna's history...
...SMARTER RISK TAKING Its culture embraced risk--including others'. Enron's Energy Services unit was a pioneer in building a business based on getting other companies to pay to shed risk. It helped concerns like Starwood Hotels handle complex financial instruments that protected them from swings in energy prices. Clients got predictable prices; Enron took on the risk--and potentially huge rewards. One tool Enron had to work with: groundbreaking in-house software for risk management...
...only alludes to in extended shots of real-life arachnid mating.AIN’T NO NERDAt Harvard, Martinez wears many hats—a Quincy House residential tutor, a mathematics instructor at the extension school, a DJ at local clubs, and a student pursuing his own research on complex topics in mathematical physics. Martinez has discovered an infinite class of transcendental numbers, co-discovered the largest base 7 prime in the world (which has 67,727 digits), synthesized a new liquid crystal, developed a globally bounded, nonlinear approximation/perturbation technique, and developed a graph theoretic understanding of the Somos...