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Jefferson also had isolationist instincts. "Jefferson saw France and England as capricious monarchies," says Lehigh University political scientist Richard Matthews, author of The Radical Politics of Thomas Jefferson. "He believed in waging war for the right reasons--for example, a threat to U.S. sovereignty--not for capricious ones." Factoring into Jefferson's belief that America should restrain itself from engaging in international conflict was his optimistic image of the country's utter physical vastness and geographic impregnability. Here is how he characterized the nation in his first Inaugural Address: "Kindly separated by nature and a wide ocean from the exterminating...
...latter include a soulful scientist (Alfred Molina) who, having fooled with Mother Nature, is somehow transformed into a great, clanking mechanical octopus; back from Spidey I, Peter's spunky, sweet-spirited aunt (the divine Rosemary Harris); and the meanest newspaper managing editor in movie history (J.K. Simmons). Occasionally, a street singer shows up to croak awful ballads about Spidey's exploits, and poor Auntie can't even get a toaster premium, much less a desperately needed loan, from her bank...
...North, possibly through tougher sanctions. Until then, though, Bush needs to appear open to negotiation so that allies and domestic voters alike will not carp that war is his primary tool of foreign policy. "It seems both sides don't want to compromise," says Lee Jung Hoon, a political scientist at Yonsei University in Seoul. "But neither wants to be seen as the culprit for the lack of progress...
...AWARDED. THE MILLENNIUM TECHNOLOGY PRIZE, to British scientist TIM BERNERS-LEE, 49, who conceived of?but never patented?the idea for the World Wide Web; in Helsinki. He is the first recipient of the $1.2 million prize, given for outstanding technological achievements that raise the quality of life...
Eureka moments are rarely this sweet and simple. Thomas Kelsey, a computer scientist and cancer researcher at Scotland's University of St. Andrews, was browsing through a medical journal in April 2003, when he spotted a graph that looked oddly familiar. That bit of pattern recognition may help give women a window on their reproductive future - the ability to know in advance when they will reach menopause. The graph plotted the ovary size of healthy women in the U.S. against their age. But to Kelsey's eye, it had an identical trajectory to a mathematical model used to estimate...