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...Ritalin was supposed to make me sharper and prevent this kind of distraction. My pharmacological experience is rather shallow?I had a nasty SweeTarts addiction a while back that scared me off the harder stuff???but I knew that millions of kids with attention-deficit problems were on methylphenidates, as Ritalin and its cousins are known. I too have attention problems. I too am still maturing. Why shouldn't it work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Staying Sharp: 5 Guilt-Filled Days on the Big R, for Ritalin | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

...decision was couched in the language of religion at all. "Whether or not it was explicitly stated between the two men," says the Rev. L. Harold DeWolf, retired dean of Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C., "this was a political payoff. Raking in so much of this religious stuff???God and all that?makes it even worse than it was." Others concede the sincerity of the President's spiritual motives but challenge the wisdom of the act. "Clearly compassion is something we need more of in public life and the administration of criminal justice," declares an editorial in Commonweal this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Theology of Forgiveness | 9/23/1974 | See Source »

...North Viet Nam, where Son Tay was located. Most of those sorties would drop flares or noise devices that go off like strings of giant firecrackers, creating much noise but capable of no damage. Some, however, would have to neutralize soldiers and planes close to Son Tay with hard stuff???actions sure to bring violent protests from Hanoi and probably from the U.S. peace movement. There seemed no other resort to protect the raiders during the hour they would need to extricate the prisoners. The risk was grave, and Kissinger had one last session with the President. When Kissinger started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Acting to Aid the Forgotton Men | 12/7/1970 | See Source »

Heroin itself is a nightmare almost beyond description. By any of the names its users call it?scag, smack, the big H, horse, dope, junk, stuff???it is infamous as the hardest of drugs, the notorious nepenthe of the most hopeless narcotics addicts, the toughest of monkeys for anyone to get off his back. On heroin, the user usually progresses from snorting (inhaling the bitter powder like some deadly snuff) to skin popping (injecting the liquefied drug just beneath the skin) to mainlining (sticking the stuff directly into the bloodstream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Kids and Heroin: The Adolescent Epidemic | 3/16/1970 | See Source »

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