Career Moves.

What's gotten into President Bush? First John Negroponte, with his four decades of government service, gets to be top dog in the intelligence world. Now Stephen L. Johnson, a 24-year career veteran of the Environmental Protection Agency, gets the nod

to become its next director. It's almost as though experience suddenly counts in the search for political appointees. Update 3/7, 3:41 p.m.: Linda Robinett of the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division at China Lake, Calif., notes another example of the trend: NASA's recently named acting chief, Frederick Gregory, is a former astronaut. Granted, lots of career people (including Johnson) get appointed to acting jobs for awhile, but still.