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When operations manager Spiros Stefanou learns that a flight coming into Athens International Airport is due in early, he picks up his mobile phone and alerts baggage handlers to scramble a crew quickly. Nothing unusual about that - except that the Cisco-supplied handset that Stefanou and some 100 other airport...
...through that," he says, "nothing else is difficult." Well, almost nothing. Dong was introduced to welding as a student at Harbin Institute of Technology in China much against his will. "It was a nightmare," he recalls. Now, as a researcher at Battelle Institute in Columbus, Ohio, he's revolutionizing the field. The current methods for determining the life span, or what engineers call fatigue life, of a welded joint are notoriously imprecise. Dong refused to resign himself to the same guesswork that other engineers have long thought unavoidable. A man who has to keep himself from thinking after...
In any case, the next chief will work in Rehnquist's shadow for at least a decade, if not longer. Appointed by Richard Nixon in 1971 to replace John Marshall Harlan and selected by Ronald Reagan in 1986 to succeed Warren Burger as Chief Justice, Rehnquist sat on the court...
But his years as Chief Justice also brimmed with frustrations for Rehnquist. In the 2003-04 term, Rehnquist was on the losing side so many times-on campaign-finance restrictions, which the court upheld; on terrorism detainees, who were granted the right to challenge their designation as "enemy combatants"; and...
Bush v. Gore struck a direct blow to the left, but for the most part, Rehnquist led a somewhat attenuated revolution for the right. He could never muster majorities to overturn older liberal precedents such as Roe v. Wade, which prohibited states from outlawing abortion, or stop newer ones such...