{"59965":{"#nid":"59965","#data":{"type":"news","title":"The 2006 Edition of the Great Package Race is Underway","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOn Friday 14 April, we phoned each of UPS, FedEx, and DHL to carry identical   packages to our contacts in:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Col\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EOuagadougou\u003C\/strong\u003E: the capital city of Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta;     in central Africa) \u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003ESplit\u003C\/strong\u003E, Croatia: home of the Palace of Diocletian \u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003ESurabaya\u003C\/strong\u003E, Indonesia: Largest city on East Java \u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E Punta Arenas\u003C\/strong\u003E, Chile: capital of Patagonian Chile and southernmost town     in the world \u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ol\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe packages have been picked up and are now en route. You can follow the   race and (eventually) see the final results at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.warehouse-science.com\/package-race\/package-race.html\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.warehouse-science.com\/\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EYou are invited to join the class Thursday 20 April, 9:30-11am in IC205,     when Mark Sobolewski, VP of International Strategy at UPS, will visit ISyE     6202 to discuss issues of international freight and to describe how UPS handled     our packages.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2006-05-18 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:03","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-05-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2006-05-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}