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...despite what politicians say, marijuana was not my gateway to heroin and a crack pipe. I have not used other drugs, and I don't plan to. Aside from the occasional roll through a stop sign, I am a law-abiding citizen. As I write these words, I have this sense of shame that makes me hope that my first-grade teacher and my best friend's parents don't read this issue of TIME. They still think I'm a good kid. Fortunately, my mother didn't know about my behavior until I had more or less turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COURTNEY CARLSON: WHY I SAID YES | 12/9/1996 | See Source »

...school and the police can't do much about pot use without the support and concern of parents, many of whom can't seem to decide whether to be the good cop or the bad cop with their kids. Emily, 48, turned into an enforcer when she found a pipe as she was redecorating her 16-year-old son's room. "I told him I didn't approve, that I didn't think it was necessary," she says. Emily's reaction wasn't as cool when another parent called to tell her that her 14-year-old daughter was smoking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH TIMES AT NEW TRIER HIGH | 12/9/1996 | See Source »

...call in Aurora, Colorado, came from a woman threatening to asphyxiate herself with a garden hose connected to an auto exhaust pipe. Within minutes, nine paramedics and fire fighters aboard two pumper trucks, a battalion fire chief in a Ford Bronco and a pair of medics from a private ambulance company had converged on the scene to administer oxygen to the woman and transport her to a hospital. Across this Denver suburb, a variety of rescue scenes were being repeated in similar all-hands fashion. Boasts fire chief Ray Barnes: "When lives are at stake, we want the fullest emergency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMBULANCE CHASING | 12/9/1996 | See Source »

With Prestifilippo watching Bradford, Noble positioned himself to finish to the right of the Harvard keeper who was guarding his left pipe. Bradford slid the puck to his center at the perfect moment, and neither Presifilippo nor Scorsune could adjust in time to stop Noble, who completed the textbook two-on-one with a one timer...

Author: By Bo Williams, | Title: Men's Hockey Outlasts Brown | 11/20/1996 | See Source »

...Johns' Flag, 1955, a flag or a painting? The American flag is the best-known abstraction in the world; is a painting of an abstraction a representation? The questions twist back to Rene Magritte's famous brainteaser, the painting of a pipe with "This is not a pipe" written above it (of course not, dummy; it's a painting). Flag is designed like a flag, but it's made of paint, not cloth, and it cannot "fly"; it is static, stretched, rigid. You are meant to pay attention to its surface, which never happens with a real flag. This surface...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BEHIND THE SACRED AURA | 11/11/1996 | See Source »

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