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...stayed out drinking the night before, he struck her. She left immediately; the couple broke up within days after the marriage. But Kit was already pregnant. On June 17, 1943, almost nine months to the day after they were married, her baby was born and she named him Newton after her estranged husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWT GINGRICH; MASTER OF THE HOUSE | 12/25/1995 | See Source »

...told his mother he was going to the library and instead took a bus to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to lobby city and state officials about building a zoo. He pressed his cause for the next two years, with arguments that echo eerily 40 years later. "A few minutes' conversation with Newton leaves an awed adult with a flying start toward an inferiority complex," reporter Jace Bennett wrote in the Harrisburg Evening News. "Don't you know an African lion costs only $250. And it's easily gotten!" argued the boy crusader. "We wouldn't even have to start out with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWT GINGRICH; MASTER OF THE HOUSE | 12/25/1995 | See Source »

...more scientists struggle to explain the Cambrian explosion, the more singular it seems. And just as the peculiar behavior of light forced physicists to conclude that Newton's laws were incomplete, so the Cambrian explosion has caused experts to wonder if the twin Darwinian imperatives of genetic variation and natural selection provide an adequate framework for understanding evolution. "What Darwin described in the Origin of Species," observes Queen's University paleontologist Narbonne, "was the steady background kind of evolution. But there also seems to be a non-Darwinian kind of evolution that functions over extremely short time periods - and that...

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

...Osei-Tutu 0-1 1-2 1; Girolametto 1-3 0-0 3; Restic 1-1 0-0 2, State 0-2 0-0 0; Piccini 1-2 0-0 2; Spithoff 0-0 0-0 0; Akrong 1-2 2-5 4; Storry 0-0 0-0 0; Newton 0-6 2-2 2. TOTALS 19-5 1 7-13 47. Harvard: Domian 3-8 0-1 7; Hill 3-5 3-4 10; Gilmore 4-9 2-2 13; Beem 2-3 1-1 6; Dexter 0-0 0-0 0; Weaver 4-8 2-2 11; Scott...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Men's Cagers Win Big | 11/20/1995 | See Source »

Stay on I-90 West (towards Newton, New York) until the I-84 West junction; there will be plenty of signs for New York. Stay on I-84 until Hartford; change to state route 15, which will have a turnoff for I-91 South to New Haven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Way To Yale | 11/17/1995 | See Source »

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