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...What does it all mean? That she, like any great star, is a blank slate on which any member of the public can write his or her own particular fantasy. Her response to the question of whether she, privately, is more like her "Marias" or the flashily dressed, seductive chanteuse, is a carefully measured one: "The public can choose how they want to see me. Some like the image of a tender girl, the poor girl of the soap operas. Others see me [as] more aggressive, strong, the way, I am sometimes on stage... I let my fans decide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mrs. Mottola Nobody Knows | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

...usual means of forging them, either by photocopying the form or by using a pen to change a prescription for 10 tablets, for example, to 100. The truly inventive ones ask their doctors for another drug, then take the prescription form home, soak the ink off with chemicals and write themselves a new prescription...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Potent Perils Of a Miracle Drug | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

...largest consumer of OxyContin among all the states, and had 35 deaths from overdoses last year. "We haven't had a drug problem like this in the high schools in Maine until now," says U.S. Attorney Jay McCloskey, who is waging a war against the doctors who so readily write OxyContin prescriptions. "We've had people tell us if a doctor had just asked them to roll up their sleeve for a blood-pressure test, they would have seen the track marks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Potent Perils Of a Miracle Drug | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

Quine continued to write long after his retirement, with the last of his more than 25 works, "From Stimulus to Science" published...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Philosopher Quine Dies at 92 on Christmas Day | 1/5/2001 | See Source »

...more and more places today, the connections are palpable and practical. Colleges are once again helping neighborhood schools by designing curriculums and training teachers, helping write academic standards, and mounting capital campaigns. Some universities are starting charter schools from scratch on their campuses. Five years ago, just two states ran K-16 programs. Today 24 do, according to the Education Commission of the States. That's on top of scores of partnerships involving private colleges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New College Try | 12/30/2000 | See Source »

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