New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

It should have been a simple rescue mission...Retired Pararescueman, Quinn Wolff, wrote the book on how to stay alive during a mission when he founded Wolff Securities, an elite private sector security firm. When he fast-ropes down to save missing humanitarian aid worker, Avery Marks, in the remote mountains of Azbakastan he isn't prepared for the brave, stubborn woman who challenges the rules he wrote in order to protect her.But when it comes to matters of the heart nothing is simple...Avery Marks learned a long time ago to take care of herself, but when her convoy is attacked, her friends and coworkers murdered, she has to rely on the aid of intensely capable and handsome, Quinn Wolff to get her safely out of the country. His skills keep her alive, but his kisses put her in danger. In danger of losing her heart. That's a risk she can't take ever again.

For more than twenty-three years, Robert Anderson chased drug smugglers and terrorists across a dozen different countries, flying a wide variety of government airplanes and helicopters for the world’s largest law enforcement air force. For his entire career as a pilot, he kept a logbook of all his flights, making notes if anything out of the ordinary happened—and it often did. Maximum Risk is a true account of some of his most exciting adventures, working some of the United States’ biggest drug cases, protecting the president of the United States, and going undercover against major drug lords. Rocky has flown airplanes and helicopters on missions covering the United States, the Caribbean, and Central and South America. He has gone undercover in some of the biggest cases for US Customs and has been involved in all their largest operations in the last two decades. He has flown airspace security missions over the Washington, DC, area and for presidential security details. Rocky has assisted in over one hundred felony arrests, the seizure of more than one hundred thousand pounds of marijuana and cocaine, and millions of dollars of drug money. Maximum Risk is a heart-pounding memoir that recounts the incredible true adventures of a Homeland Security pilot.

80 papers selected from PICMET '99 as representative of the field.