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...that more than one killer was involved. For example, Earl Caldwell, then a reporter for the New York Times, was in his room on the first floor of the Lorraine Motel when the shot rang out. He ran out and saw a man crouching near the edge of a weed-covered embankment at the foot of the flophouse from which the FBI contends Ray fired the fatal shot. This shadowy figure, Caldwell says, seemed to be focusing his attention on the balcony where King's aides were hovering around the fallen civil rights leader. Caldwell lost track...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIVIDING LINE: THE MYSTERIES OF JAMES EARL RAY | 2/17/1997 | See Source »

...Those students who can get on are on for a very long time," Mandel says. "It's much more hectic to weed out who actually has a problem and who's there just to cause problems...

Author: By Anne C. Krendl, | Title: AMERICA OFF-line | 2/4/1997 | See Source »

...Ronald McDonald's face, a 19-year-old employee of the burger joint was arrested today for selling marijuana in Happy Meals. Mence Powell, who manned the restaurant's drive-through window, was taken into custody after selling undercover officers a burger, fries, soda and a side of weed on five separate occasions. Police said Powell pulled the scam by arranging deals in advance. After an order was placed, customers would then head to the drive-through window to complete the transaction. "I don't know how he could think that he could do this and continue to get away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Very Happy Meals | 1/29/1997 | See Source »

...case against marijuana remains relatively undramatic. It is true that the new generation of weed is stronger than what the boomers remember; that potency means it takes fewer puffs to get high, thus cutting down on damage to the respiratory system, for example. On the other hand, stronger pot and higher kids lead to more reckless driving and car accidents. It is true that smoking pot is less harmful than heavy drinking and does not threaten one's life, as do addictions to harder drugs. Proselytical pot smokers love to point out that a fatal overdose would require...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KIDS & POT | 12/9/1996 | See Source »

...marijuana heavily from age 16 to 26, then stopped. The way you process life events emotionally after that may be more like a 16-year-old." Could it be that the famous reluctance of the baby boomer to imagine himself as an adult has something to do with the weed he smoked when young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KIDS & POT | 12/9/1996 | See Source »

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