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When Marion was a kid, her toys were sticks and balls, not dolls, and as with Tiger and Andre, there are stories aplenty about Marion the post-toddler prodigy. A feisty little girl, she could outrace any boy in the L.A. burbs. She was special and knew it. At age 5 in 1981, she watched Diana marry Charles on TV and asked about the red carpet. Her mom told her the carpet was rolled out for important people. "Well, when I go places," Marion said, "why don't they roll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Summer Olympics: Marion Jones | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

...When Marion was a kid, her toys were sticks and balls, not dolls, and as with Tiger and Andre, there are stories aplenty about Marion the post-toddler prodigy. A feisty little girl, she could outrace any boy in the L.A. burbs. She was special and knew it. At age 5 in 1981, she watched Diana marry Charles on TV and asked about the red carpet. Her mom told her the carpet was rolled out for important people. "Well, when I go places," Marion said, "why don't they roll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meet the Marvelous Marion Jones | 9/1/2000 | See Source »

When a four-month-old Rae was hand-delivered to us at Gate B-7 at Denver's Stapleton Airport, we knew someday we would be in Korea trying to find her birth mother. We just never dreamed it would be this soon. Then again, since Rae was a toddler, we've told her she was adopted, and she has constantly asked about her birth mother. "Do you think my birth mother plays the piano like I do?" "Do you think my birth mother is pretty?" And then, at 10, after a day of too many stares: a teary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seoul Searching | 8/28/2000 | See Source »

...shortly thereafter that the Gores learned just how much their willful eldest child could impact them. Karenna was a handful, even as a toddler. "Rules and limits are more important than a lot of parents realize," wrote Tipper in her 1987 book, Raising PG Kids in an X-Rated Society. "I learned that simple but important lesson myself with my first child, who was overly demanding and had me wrapped around her finger at two years of age." Tipper encouraged her daughter's independence, letting her draw on the walls and giving Karenna her 1960s polyester and suede hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democratic Convention: The Daughter Also Rises | 8/21/2000 | See Source »

...reach the top of today's pop charts, you need a bare midriff, jailbaiting lyrics or, failing that, you could have Don Ho for a dad. HOKU, who used to sing Tiny Bubbles onstage with her papa Don as a toddler, is now a 19-year-old bombshell midway through her first national tour of the U.S., promoting her hit single, Another Dumb Blonde. The girl-empowerment anthem contains such coming-of-age epiphanies as "Lately I've just come to find/That you're not really interested/In my heart or mind." A devout Christian and onetime Tommy Hilfiger model, Hoku...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 31, 2000 | 7/31/2000 | See Source »

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