A later computer reconstruction suggested slightly different features, with a wider nose, fuller lips and deep-set eyes.Many scientists believe the first New World inhabitants arrived in a wave about 11,500 years ago, walking across an Ice Age land bridge between Siberia and Alaska, but some believe some discovered skeletons and scattered evidence of earlier settlements may indicate several waves of migration from different parts of Asia and the Pacific. These people - many based at Texas A&M University - are usually known as the "Pre-Clovis" group, a reference to their belief that human populations predate the 12,000-year-old skeleton found at Clovis, New Mexico, in 1908.Some scientists say Kennewick Man's skull most closely resembles the Ainu, an aboriginal group that still lives in northern Japan but does not resemble the modern inhabitants.The Corps of Engineers has forbidden the researchers to glue the bones back together The best evidence of lineage would come from DNA analysis. Tom McClelland, a sculpture instructor, and Mr Chatters had reconstructed the features on the skull and studies concluded that the facial features of Kennewick Man did not match those of Native American tribes.The most famous image of his face may also not be accurate. They will then be returned to the University of Washington's Burke Museum, where they have been held in a vault that requires two keys to open.The aim of the scientists is to glean what details they can about the way Kennewick Man lived and died. "This is something that should have been done years ago," the archaeologist Jim Chatters, the first researcher to inspect the bones, told the Seattle Times. The work on Kennewick Man will further fuel the already often ferocious debate about the origins of the native populations of the American continent. Scientists have already taken scans of the pelvis and skull and a dozen experts have converged in Seattle to begin 10 days of further, more comprehensive study.After that, the remains will be returned to the Army Corps of Engineers, which owns the land along the Columbia River in Washington where they were found.

Some experts believe it could yield important clues about the origin of the original pop-ulation of the Americas. The remains had been locked away since their accidental discovery by students in Washington state in 1996 because of a legal dispute over who should have access. Native American tribes had said the bones should be reburied without scientific examination, claiming such scrutiny would be desecration. In February 2004, a panel of judges ruled in favour of eight scientists who filed a lawsuit seeking the right to study the remains and said there was no link between the remains and five Native American tribes who opposed the research. Soon afterwards, as mayor of Neuilly in the western Paris suburbs, Sarkozy officiated at the marriage between an ageing French TV star, Jacques Martin (the French Hughie Greene) and C?lia Maria Sara Isabel Ciganer-Albeniz.M. Sarkozy later told friends that he fell for the young bride of Spanish and Russian extraction there and then After a brief marriage to M. Martin, Cecilia left with her two children and set up home with Sarkozy.They seemed to be the ideal power couple, rarely apart.

Looking back, however, Cecilia, 47, has been dropping public hints for months that she was not so driven as Nicolas by the need to reach the top. She said that she "did not see herself" as France's first lady. She wanted to preserve her own life and wear jeans and sandals when she wanted to. "I am not who you think I am" she told a TV interviewer.For all the logic of his strategy of plain-speaking, there has been something more brittle and less self- confident about Sarkozy since the difficulties with C?lia became public.The former prime minister Edouard Balladur, the man for whom M. Sarkozy first broke with Chirac in 1995, said recently: "Sometimes I am a little afraid for Nicolas." The comment was partly generated by the C?lia question But also by M.