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Wellstone, the stocky upstart who shocked Minnesota politicos with a victory in 1990, faces the same man this year; now, however, Wellstone's the incumbent. He has also ruffled stodgy senatorial feathers with his wardrobe and rambunctious speeches, but the former Carleton College professor has earned respect for his solid liberalism: he's the only Senator running for re-election who voted against the recent welfare-reform bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: MINNESOTA | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

...what makes the show so appealing is the Kratts' ironic manner, which suggests Keanu Reeves auditioning for a role as Marlin Perkins. The brothers' commentary is full of "whoas!" and "awrights!" but their breeziness never belies their smarts. Chris, 27, studied biology at Carleton College in Minnesota; Martin, 30, majored in zoology at Duke. Seven years ago, the brothers took a semester off from college, packed a Hi8 camera and traveled to Costa Rica to record wildlife adventures. After graduation, Chris received a prestigious Thomas J. Watson Fellowship for study abroad and expanded the project. Eventually the brothers took their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: DUDES, ANIMALS ARE TOTALLY COOL! | 8/5/1996 | See Source »

CHARGED. DR. DANIEL CARLETON GAJDUSEK, 72, Nobelist for Medicine and National Institutes of Health researcher; with child abuse after a college student said he had been molested in his teens by Gajdusek; in Frederick, Maryland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Apr. 15, 1996 | 4/15/1996 | See Source »

...invention of new hardware, but rather the elaboration of new software that allowed existing genes to perform new tricks. Unusual-looking arthropods, for example, might be cobbled together through variations of the genetic software that codes for legs. "Arthropods," observes paleoentomologist Jarmila Kukalov-Peck of Canada's Carleton University, "are all legs" - including the "legs" that evolved into jaws, claws and even sex organs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Life Exploded | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

...association with the court should notautomatically exclude a potential candidate,"Carleton said. "Even a crime as horrible asparricide should never prohibit a person frommaking a positive change in their life," he added...

Author: By Sewell Chan, | Title: Grant Case Sparks National Debate | 4/10/1995 | See Source »

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