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...became the nation's 78th elected Democrat to become a Republican since Clinton's election, and others are expected to follow suit or to quit rather than make the switch. "Democrats have gotten over denial, and now they are in shock about their future," concludes James Thurber, a political scientist at American University. "And their future looks pretty grim...
Houghton joins three other corporate executives and a lawyer on the non-academic slate of the Corporation. The presence of an active research scientist, at a time when society is driven by technological advancement, has now disappeared. Houghton's background at Corning, a firm heavily reliant on scientific research, has been touted as maintaining the link to natural sciences that Slichter, a professor of physics and chemistry at the University of Illinois, provided. Houghton, who received his highest degree at Harvard Business School, has been called "not just another CEO." Some have even suggested that he might be instrumental...
...world is a better place with SATAN out there," says Bill Cheswick, a computer scientist at AT&T's Bell Laboratories and co-author of Firewalls and Internet Security. The Internet has been growing so rapidly, says Cheswick, that it is filled with novice administrators running powerful computer networks who don't have any idea how vulnerable their systems are. "The bad guys already have these tools," says Cheswick. "It's a lot harder for the good guys to get them...
...taxing role of doomed prodigy quite the dancing-flame intensity that Emma Fielding did. And the new Septimus (Billy Crudup) has the aplomb but not the haunted intellectual uneasiness Rufus Sewell conveyed. A pleasing surprise, however, is Robert Sean Leonard, playing Valentine Coverly, a modern-day biologist and computer scientist. As Claudio in Kenneth Branagh's film Much Ado About Nothing, Leonard looked thoroughly out of his element while trying to do what stage actors traditionally do--proclaim words of love in ornamental verse. Here, in an odder role that requires him to speak of mathematics in hard-edged, gemlike...
Hope agrees that several people are likely tostep down in the next few years, providing theCorporation with the opportunity to replenishitself with a third academic, perhaps a scientist...