SHORT ARTICLES, by M Bruce Beck Oh, to be understood beyond our peer group, especially at cocktail parties and the like! For some time I have been drafting (and re-drafting) articles - ever shorter articles - with precisely this in mind. Some of these are posted here, by clicking on the links provided. They are meant to be thought-provoking articles, such that, should you be so provoked, we would be delighted to hear back from you (e-mail: yearwood@uga.edu ). SUSTAINABILITY: AN ENGINEER'S 11-POINT CHECK-LIST Intended to be something I could indeed deliver over after-dinner drinks. I know, it already has too few points, and is several pages too long. My goal would be to distill this down to the "back of an envelope"; something students could keep in their back pockets, as they go about their careers. IN CELEBRATION OF THE ENGINEER - Benefitting From the Bull in the China Shop My response to the stimulation of participating in the 2005 Stockholm Water Symposium. FIELD SCIENCE versus MODELING. Eliminating Daft Ideas - Sooner than Later Best-selling author Michael Crichton has written a novel: State of Fear; in fact, a thriller gathered around how the evidence would stack up, one way or the other, were a law suit to be brought against some entity for causing climate change. Modeling is prominent. And the author has many provocative desiderata on the subject. This is just one of many such (very short) articles that could have been launched from Crichton's platform.