April 2001 • Volume 28 Number 2 The following table of contents lists articles in the April 2001 print edition of OR/MS Today. You may follow any of the linked titles to read those items in their entirety. For quick navigation you may jump directly to any of the following sections: Departments Features INFORMS News Departments Inside Story President's Desk INFORMS Online Cyberspace Issues in Education Was It Something I Said? Forum Letters Real World Calendar New Books Literature Files Classifieds OR/MS Today now features Online Classifieds Special International Issue Features Worldwide Consulting Keys to Success By Robert Abrams & Andres Weintraub High Expectations By John Ranyard & Robert Fildes Cultural Approach By Gene Woolsey The INRO Way By Michael Florian Lessons Learned By Laureano F. Escudero Cross-Border Issues By Costas P. Pappis   OR in Action Bubbles, Bad Bets & Bankruptcy By William T. Ziemba "Gaijin" professor's models predicted market crash, but advice discarded as Japan's fourth largest security firm goes under   A Life or Death Question By Steffen Flessa Allocating scarce healthcare resources in AIDS-stricken Africa: Strategic models of operations research offer hope   Optimizing Internet Networks By Eric Gourdin France Telecom: Changing the rules to accommodate demanding new traffic streams   Translating OR into Success By Horst W. Hamacher German institute tackles a variety of problems, including life-saving cancer radiation project   Air Canada Reaches 'Altitude' By Jacques Desrosiers Preferential Bidding System helps carrier integrate 1,400 pilots following acquisition of Canadian Airlines   Computing Software Review: OPL Studio 3.1 By Christopher Skiscim Powerful, flexible product offers array of problem-solving methods   INFORMS News Optimize the Extended Enterprise 2002 Elections Presidential Portrait Gallery Letter from the Executive Director International 2001 Hawaii Meeting OR in the News Award Nominations People Meetings Colloquia Information OR/MS Today Home Page OR/MS Today copyright © 2001 by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. All rights reserved. Lionheart Publishing, Inc. 506 Roswell Street, Suite 220, Marietta, GA 30060, USA Phone: 770-431-0867 | Fax: 770-432-6969 E-mail: lpi@lionhrtpub.com URL: http://www.lionhrtpub.com Web Site © Copyright 2001 by Lionheart Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved.