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...spewing enough gases into the atmosphere to heat up the earth in a greenhouse effect that could eventually produce disastrous climate changes. But until recently, the prophets of global warming garnered about as much attention as the religious zealots who insist that Armageddon is near. When Colorado Senator Timothy Wirth held congressional hearings on the greenhouse effect in the fall of 1987, the topic generated no heat at all. "We had a very, very distinguished panel," Wirth recalled at the TIME Environment Conference, "and who was in the cavernous hearing room? Six or seven people, and two or three...
...going to be a battle of the quarterbacks. The smug traditions of Yale tailgaters will smother the Yale quarterback, and Harvard's clear and precise thinking will dissect the Yale defense," Sen. Timothy Wirth '61 (D-Colo.) says. "It seems to me the score will...
TIMOTHY E. WIRTH...
...Congressman, the 6-ft. 5-in. Wirth made a reputation as the typical "Atari Democrat," who urges growth and investment in high-technology industries. But he has balanced his views with positions more attuned to a Colorado constituency. He advocated strong consumer-protection laws but also worked for abolition of price controls on oil and gas. When campaigning back home, Wirth shucks his stylish Washington dress in favor of cowboy boots and big belt buckles, but some Democratic pols think he must cultivate a more genuinely down-to-earth manner. Says one: "It's something Tim needs to work...
When he was three, his father died, and his mother struggled to support the family. Still, with the help of scholarships, Tim Wirth was able to attend some of the nation's most elite schools: Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard and Stanford. From that experience, Democrat Wirth has fashioned a political morality tale. He succeeded, he tells campaign crowds, because "government and society" made investments in the future; government and society must continue to do so as a way of "ensuring that everybody has a chance." Increasingly conservative Colorado voters responded by electing liberal Wirth to six terms in the House...