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...neither apple-pie success stories nor tragic victims of American assimilation. In Jen's world Chinese parents open up a restaurant, make money, move to the suburbs, argue in Shanghainese, then find their youngest daughter wants to be Jewish and ditch Mandarin lessons for Hebrew. There's no melting pot to be seen in this immigrant experience, boiling everyone down to the same temperature; Jen knows America is far too messy for that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When the Melting Pot Boils Over | 9/20/2004 | See Source »

...only requirements Case imposes are that students be serious about kicking their habit and agree to attend regular support-group meetings. Andy, 20, a former fraternity president, is thrilled to be free of the "distractions" that led him to fail most of his classes last semester. "When [pot] is in your face all the time, it's easy to get caught up in it," he says. "Now I don't have the apathy I used to have. I'm ready to apply myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Campus: Goodbye to the Binge: The Recovery House | 9/20/2004 | See Source »

...knew that we were going to stir the pot, but I had no idea we'd be this successful," says retired Rear Admiral Roy Hoffmann, Kerry's former commander and founder of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (SBVT). By last Friday the group said its website alone had raised $2.5 million from 37,183 donors--money Hoffmann says he plans to use to pummel Kerry with ads right up to Election Day. Kerry campaign officials say their focus groups suggest a backlash is building, one they hope will pick up if they can link President Bush to SBVT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Vets On A Roll | 9/6/2004 | See Source »

Although the actual potency of BC Bud varies from batch to batch, depending on how it's grown, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration says that as much as 25% of BC Bud is made of the psychoactive drug tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). In contrast, the pot that the hippie generation smoked in the 1970s had only 2% THC content, and most pot consumed in the U.S. today averages about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: This Bud's For The U.S. | 8/23/2004 | See Source »

...prison, compared with the minimum punishment of five to 10 years that most convicted traffickers and growers receive in U.S. federal court. But as the violence has increased and cultivation of the crop has moved into residential areas, Canada has begun cracking down on its estimated 50,000 commercial pot growers. Over the past four years, police in Vancouver have seized $288 million worth of marijuana and $8.7 million worth of growing equipment. In Barrie, Ont., in January, police confiscated 30,000 marijuana plants, worth $23 million, inside a former Molson brewery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: This Bud's For The U.S. | 8/23/2004 | See Source »

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