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Whitesides, who chaired the department of chemistry and chemical biology from 1986 to 1989, and won the National Medal of Science in 1998, becomes the second scholar on the current Rohm and Haas board of directors. He joins Gilbert S. Omenn, a professor at the University of Michigan...
...tensions with India over the disputed region of Kashmir, the event turned Khan into a national hero. His glowering, wavy-haired portrait was hand-painted on the backs of trucks and buses all over the country. He was twice awarded Pakistan's highest civilian honor, the Hilal-e-Imtiaz medal. Celebrated in textbooks, he was probably Pakistan's most famous...
Less than than two months after former Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) administrator L. Paul Bremer received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, a scathing audit by a longtime confidante of George W. Bush is bashing Bremer's agency for failing to establish "adequate financial controls," leaving some fiscal reporting systems "either weak or non-existent." The audit charges that the CPA left large portions of the $8.8 billion Iraqi treasury "open to fraud, kickbacks, and misappropriation of funds," according to a draft obtained by TIME. The report was written by Stuart Bowen, a lawyer from Texas who became special inspector general...
...there," he says. "It's easy for me." Going into skiing's world championships, which run through Feb. 13 in Bormio, Italy, the talented racer still leads the field in the overall World Cup Standings. In Bormio, he is the most serious threat to take a medal in each of the four racing disciplines and a favorite to defend the three medals he won at the last championships two years ago. On Saturday he opened the competition with an electrifying victory by a 0.14 sec. margin in the Super G. He is also, arguably, the most exciting skier to watch...
...sleek intensity and jaw-swiveling impact unique in movie martial arts. He also knows how to take a fall. In one match, he gets on the wrong end of a killer kick and executes a triple twist before hitting the canvas, as if Greg Louganis were doing a gold-medal dive from a curb into a puddle. And stick around for Jaa's higher, higher, pants-on-fire stunt, in which he twirls and kicks while swathed in flames...