Its job is to advise on suitable candidates for a new, two-tiered, independent system, staffed by professional judges with at least ten years' experience.

ECONOMIST: Choosing judges

Loomis threw himself into the job, shutting down the Tuxedo Park lab to work on developing a long-range radar system that would allow Allied forces to detect enemy movements during World War II.

FORBES: The Alchemist

This flushing, says Job Baretta, a consultant on coastal system dynamics, was rapid enough to avoid over-fertilisation of the lagoon until the 1980s, when massive and persistent blooms of algae broke out.

ECONOMIST: Flood barriers