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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...
Hindsight is 20/20. But once in a rare while, foresight is too. For years, researchers have described exactly what would happen if a megahurricane hit New Orleans and the surrounding Gulf region. They predicted that the city levees would not hold. Their elaborate computer models showed that tens of thousands...
On Wednesday, Gregory Breerwood, operations chief for the Army Corps of Engineers, told the Wall Street Journal that none of the plans had "ever included an event of this magnitude." But Hurricane Pam, an elaborate federally sponsored simulation conducted just one year ago, had predicted an eerily similar scenario with...
Nearly 2 1/2 years since fighting erupted between African rebels and government-backed Arab militias in Sudan's western Darfur region, the horror continues. When TIME published a cover story last October on the unfolding genocide against Darfur's non-Arab Muslims, some 50,000 had died and 1.4 million...
APPOINTED. CRISTETA COMERFORD, 41, as Executive Chef at the White House; in Washington, D.C. Comerford, who was born in the Philippines and trained in classic French cooking, was selected after a six-month search, becoming the first woman to hold the position. She will prepare all of the first family...