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...particularly painful instances, Marion would head into Los Angeles to seek out her dad at the Laundromat where he worked. She would spot him in his office, then be told he wasn't around. She'd look again, and he'd be gone. When Marion's stepfather Ira Toler died of a stroke in 1987, the 11-year-old was left with no father and no father figure. She has often said that given the chance, "I would have been a daddy's girl," and she sometimes wonders if she won all those trophies to impress a man she never...

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

World Hunger: The Lessons of Ethiopia: Frances Moore Lappe and Deborah Toler, Northeastern University's Alumni Auditorium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: October 17-23 | 10/17/1985 | See Source »

...psychiatrist, "Not only did MDMA enable me to recover my sanity, it enabled me to recover my soul." Therapists who endorse MDMA say that it does not produce the high of marijuana, the rush of cocaine or amphetamines (speed) or the hallucinations of LSD. Users, they say, develop a toler- ance for the chemical and, according to some therapists, do not appear to become addicted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: A Crackdown on Ecstasy | 6/10/1985 | See Source »

...former Coal Miner McCoy and the late Willis Hatfield, then 88, shook hands to end America's most famous misunderstanding, the origins of which are unknown. Last week, to the strains of Amazing Grace, the McCoys gathered to pay their last respects-at the Hatfield Funeral Chapel in Toler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: She Had Rhythm and Was the Top | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

...population have self-fulfillment as their principal life goal. Slightly more (20%) still cling to traditional values of hard work, family loyalty and sacrifice. The majority (63%) embrace some traditional values but also espouse views that would have been heretical only a generation ago. They are toler ant about abortion, premarital sex, remaining single, and not having children; they are skeptical about the importance of work, feeling that it does not have to be at the center of their lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aftershocks of the Me Decade | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

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