December 2001 • Volume 28 Number 6 The following table of contents lists articles in the December 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 Letters President's Desk INFORMS Online Cyberspace Issues in Education Was It Something I Said? ORacle Real World Calendar Call for Papers New Books IFORS News Industry Update Classifieds OR/MS Today now features Online Employment Classifieds Features FORUM Countering Terrorism: The Clash of Values By Ralph L. Keeney Tradeoffs can't be avoided when confronted with difficult decisions   COVER STORY The Worst Day Ever By Arnold Barnett Sept. 11 raises many questions regarding commercial aviation safety and security   OR & FINANCE Managing Risk, Reaping Rewards By Stavros A. Zenios Changing financial world turns to operations research   BUSINESS APPLICATIONS Web Services: OR's Newest Ally? By V.S. Rama Ramakrishnan Can XML-based standards reduce time, cost of building business applications over the Internet?   Q&A High Octane Gass By Peter R. Horner Cruising along at 75, Saul I. Gass has done just about everything in his 50-year careerŠexcept slow down   INFORMS News President's Award: Fitting Honor for Bonder OR in the News Lanchester Prize Kimball Medals von Neumann Prize Morse Lectureship Top Teacher Award Nicholson Prize Expository Writing Prize Dantzig Dissertation Award TSS Lifetime Achievement Roundtable Honors Baker PAC Bytes INFORMS Fellows People In Memoriam Montreal Agenda Meetings OR/MS Today Home Page OR/MS Today copyright © 2002 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 2002 by Lionheart Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved.