April 1999 • Volume 26 Number 2 The following table of contents lists articles in the April 1999 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 Letters Issues in Education INFORMS Online (IOL) Cyberspace Was it Something I said? Oracle Viewpoint Forum Practice Lesson Real World Literature Files Calendar New Books Call for Papers Industry Update Classifieds OR/MS Today now features Online Classifieds Features Special International Issue OR Alive and Well Around the World Is OR Global? By Andres Weintraub Is OR Local? By Jonathan Rosenhead Culture Broth By Jaime Barcelo   Copper Cleans Up Its Act By Susana Mondschein and Sara Pimentel Applying OR techniques for pollution control decisions in the Chilean copper industry   Trading Places By Katsushige Sawaki What happened to the once high-flying Japanese financial sector and can OR/MS right the ship?   Hunting for Profits By John Hearne Operations research takes aim at game ranch management in South Africa   Logistical Nightmare By Elise del Rosario Archipelago setting presents unique distribution challenges for Philippine-based San Miguel Corp.   Fighting Fire with OR By David L. Martell, Al Tithecott and Paul C. Ward Operations research enhances forest fire management in Ontario, Canada   Untangling Traffic Congestion By Michael Florian Application of network equilibrium models in transportation planning   Computing Software Review: Micro Saint By Andreas R. Ernst, et. al Ease of use, additional functionality highlight discrete-event simulation-modeling tool   INFORMS News What They're Saying About OR President's Desk Election Nominations Optimization Prize for Young Researchers People SOLA Award Submissions Meetings Cincinnati Meeting Guide to Exhibitors OR/MS Today Home Page OR/MS Today copyright © 1999 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: 770-432-696 E-mail: lpi@lionhrtpub.com Web Site © Copyright 1999 by Lionheart Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved.