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To inform faculty and staff about the new state retirement plan and help them compare its benefits with those of the only existing employer-sponsored retirement plan for educators, a defined-benefit plan, Georgia Institute of Technology used an electronic spreadsheet and a series of seminars for analyzing and illustrating investment options. (MSE)

The article provides a historical background regarding the identification and quantification of diethylene glycol (DEG) in pharmaceutical products that caused mass poisoning in Nigeria, Haiti, and Panama. It mentions that a timely public health response was put in place by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia because they were able to identify DEG contamination within 24 hours of the incident. Moreover, they accomplished the identification of a biochemical marker that can differentiate between those who ingested DEG and those who did not. The article concludes that a faster analytical tool and a standardized methodology are needed to respond to future epidemics.