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...bill to reduce payroll taxes). She worked with Bush on the No Child Left Behind Act and voted for his homeland-security bill. The state's senior Senator, John Breaux, explains, "She didn't want to be Cleland-ed," a reference to Georgia Senator Max Cleland, the Vietnam War hero defeated after his opponent pictured him with Osama bin Laden for having voted against the same bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The I-Love-George Contest | 12/2/2002 | See Source »

Mere weeks before proposing to the ostensible love of his life, Aaron Buerge was sticking his tongue into the mouths of half a dozen other women. In real life, this would make him a cad. But it wasn't real life--it was reality TV. The titular hero of ABC's The Bachelor, Buerge, 28, a banker from Springfield, Mo., was the potential trophy husband for the 25 women who signed up to compete for an engagement ring. Each week he gamely narrowed the field, risking chapped lips and a sprained tongue as he squired the women to various restaurants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 2, 2002 | 12/2/2002 | See Source »

With Prey Crichton goes from dino to nano: the baddie comes from the currently hot field of nanotechnology, the science of building microscopic machines. The hero is an unemployed computer whiz named Jack Forman, a likable blank who has the misfortune to be married to Julia, a workaholic exec at Xymos, a shady Silicon Valley start-up. Xymos builds tiny nanorobots that possess no intelligence of their own but can assemble themselves, insect-like, into swarms capable of solving complex problems, reproducing and even evolving. Since the thoughtless hubris of scientists is Crichton's Big Theme, all this must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death Swarmed Over | 12/2/2002 | See Source »

...Rudy Giuliani, hero of Sept. 11 and a former Mob-busting federal prosecutor, really taking his sterling reputation to--gulp!--WorldCom? The place is a disaster: home to at least $9 billion in accounting fraud, $120 billion in vaporized shareholder wealth and the largest bankruptcy in history. Giuliani is not being asked to run WorldCom (that falls to Michael Capellas, former No. 2 at Hewlett-Packard, who accepted the ceo job last week). But Giuliani has aligned with a group headed by bond investor David Matlin that is trying to seize control of WorldCom in bankruptcy court. Some bondholders want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rudy: Open For Business | 12/2/2002 | See Source »

...bill to reduce payroll taxes). She worked with Bush on the No Child Left Behind Act and voted for his homeland-security bill. The state's senior Senator, John Breaux, explains, "She didn't want to be Cleland-ed," a reference to Georgia Senator Max Cleland, the Vietnam War hero defeated after his opponent pictured him with Osama bin Laden for having voted against the same bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Louisiana's I-Love-George Contest | 11/25/2002 | See Source »

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