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...retiring when their terms are up in 2002. Same story there: both are fed up with the chamber and realize their party won't recapture it for a while. Domenici, who wielded considerable clout as Budget Committee chairman, now has to sit back and grit his teeth while Democrat Kent Conrad runs the show. Thompson has only $544,000 in his campaign bank and hasn't yet announced whether he'll seek reelection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Phil Gramm's Retirement Worries the GOP | 9/4/2001 | See Source »

...Bush who started the insanity--with the same tax cut he is hailing as a cure-all. "He claimed we could afford his massive tax cut, a major defense buildup, more money for education, while paying down the debt and protecting Social Security and Medicare," Senate Budget Committee chairman Kent Conrad said last week. "He was wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Swiped The Surplus? | 9/3/2001 | See Source »

...This is their spending plan. This is their tax plan. They have created this problem," said Senate Budget Committee chairman Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) of the White House. "They have an obligation to tell us - for example, when the president asks for $18 billion more for defense next year - how is he going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bush Fall Agenda: The Coming Washington Food Fight | 8/29/2001 | See Source »

...Having a fossil in this region of time, very near the divergence point, is really exciting," says anthropologist C. Owen Lovejoy of Ohio's Kent State University. "Going all the way back to Darwin, people have speculated how, when and why humans stood up on two legs. For paleontologists, this find is a dream come true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Giant Step For Mankind | 7/23/2001 | See Source »

...Kent State's Lovejoy, the real answer is sex. Males who were best at walking upright would get more of it, leading to more offspring who were good on two legs, who in turn got more sex. His reasoning, first proposed nearly two decades ago, goes like this: like many modern Americans, monkeys and apes of both genders work outside the home--in the latter case, searching for food. Early humans, though, discovered the Leave It to Beaver strategy: if males handled the breadwinning, females could stay closer to home and devote more time to rearing the children, thus giving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Giant Step For Mankind | 7/23/2001 | See Source »

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