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Election to the Academy is considered one of the most prestigious honors that an American scientist or engineer can receive...
...moviegoers with its tale of a puppeteer who discovers a portal into the mind of actor John Malkovich. His next offering, Human Nature, in cinemas now, is another head snapper. Patricia Arquette plays Lila, an abnormally hirsute woman who falls in love with a light-in-the-shorts behavioral scientist, Nathan Bronfman (Tim Robbins). Bronfman is trying, with some success, to teach mice to eat with the correct salad fork (yes, really). When the lovers while hiking one day find a man raised as an ape, Bronfman switches his attention...
...think of a dashing figure who resembles Matthew McConaughey more closely than the stoic elder statesman in a Gilbert Stuart painting. Jim Rees, Mount Vernon's executive director, declares that Washington "at age 23 was already the action hero of his times." Using the skills of a forensic scientist, a plastic surgeon and a life mask of the President's face, Mount Vernon will create a more youthful and vital portrait and build a new orientation center, education center and museum to play up his action-hero side. Steven Spielberg is even making a new 15-min. bio film. Indiana...
...Musharraf's future has ramifications beyond Pakistan's borders. He is the linchpin in the U.S.'s war against terrorism. If he goes, Pakistan's position as frontline state could be undermined. But the referendum could backfire, says political scientist Hasan Askari Rizvi: "Suddenly people are thinking, how different is he really?" Some fear Musharraf may also try to consolidate his power further by formalizing the role of the National Security Council, a military-dominated body that would undercut Parliament and hold decision-making authority over all major national issues...
...officials have expressed reservations about the referendum. "It doesn't seem like the greatest tactic," says a State Department official. "It'd be better if he just let the Parliament make him President." But real democracy is a messy, unpredictable business. "It does not simply mean elections," says political scientist Rizvi. "It also means you must compromise, and you may lose some power." That, for now, is not something Musharraf is willing to entertain...