HIGH-ENERGY PHYSICS:
CERN Council Chooses ITER's Head as Chief
Charles Seife
Europe's premiere accelerator laboratory has elected a director general without training in particle physics but skilled in managing large projects. That's no accident: CERN's governing council made it clear last week that building the Large Hadron Collider on time and within budget is the lab's top priority, with everything else--including a streamlined research portfolio--taking a back seat.