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...grown son in Georgia, but moving in with him didn't seem like the answer. It's one thing to have a roof over your head. It's another to have a life. "I didn't want to live with my children," she says. "I think it would bore me to death. I don't drive anymore. If I'd stayed there, I'd be sort of a prisoner during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elder Care: Making The Right Choice | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

Several clients referred by Harris are willing to defend the program publicly. Sharon Adams, 39, says she prostituted herself for 12 years to pay for crack and bore 14 children--eight of them born addicted. Now drug free and working as a pizza-delivery driver, she says, "This program isn't forcing anybody to do anything." Sherry Golding, 29, a former methamphetamine addict who struggled to regain custody of her three children, says the $200 she got to have her tubes tied was "a lifesaver. It helped me get my life together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Benevolent Bribery--Or Racism? | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

...important relationship was with God and praising a book called Power for Living. The ads ran about 50 times a day on CNN alone; print versions showed up in TIME and other magazines and on the walls of the A train Walters took to work. They were mysterious. They bore the name of no known ministry but merely the words Arthur S. DeMoss Foundation and an 800 number for ordering a free booklet. "I kept seeing it and seeing it," Walters says. "And one day I just thought, O.K., let me check it out." She did so, she acknowledged later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Are Those Guys? | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

...only things those left onshore could see were the bright whites of the officials, the black of the mourners and a puff of smoke as the Briscoe motored out to the point at which the most powerful telephoto lenses could register just the silhouettes of the mourners. The family bore their loved ones' ashes, three wreaths and three American flags. Caroline held her husband's hand as he clutched a canvas bag. Red, white and yellow blossoms trailed the ship as it headed back to shore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Farewell, John | 8/2/1999 | See Source »

Much the same could be said of John. Although he gracefully bore the public role that birth assigned him, he preferred acting in a quieter, more hands-on way. He would ride his bike, or occasionally blade, to visit the Hagemans' school in East Harlem and other neighborhoods seldom frequented by those whose celebrity or wealth affords them the protection of limos and entourages. Others on the Robin Hood board say he loved holding their meetings in the roughest neighborhoods, though he generally deferred to their desire for more convenient midtown locations. This month's session was scheduled for last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Legacy of Public Service | 8/2/1999 | See Source »

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