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The system he is fighting, in his view, is "corrupt to its core." While his book is primarily an entertaining gloss of his most intriguing legal battles, Dershowitz lays out his case against criminal justice in a furious ten-page introduction. The system is "built on a foundation of not...
The boom-and-bust profession is once again booming
Engineering has long been in a boom-and-bust cycle. In the late 1950s, after the first Sputnik was launched, it was a hot field. Then in the early 1970s, with the winding down of the Project Apollo space program and the Viet Nam War, and the cancellation of projects...
Even older engineers who become disillusioned with their profession in mid-career look back upon their school days with pride. Says Thomas Morris-White, 44, an engineering manager with Bechtel: "If I had it to do all over again, I'd be an engineer or a doctor. I wouldn...
Once they earn their degrees and enter the labor force, engineers know that they are in a field with low levels of joblessness, even during the worst of times. Unemployment among certain kinds of engineers does exist, though. There appears to be developing a small surplus of chemical engineers, for...