54 Up Front
Did Elián González's mother, Elisabet Brotons Rodríguez, risk her life, and his, only because she was blinded by love?

60 England's Rylstone & District Women's Institute did the Full Monty to raise money to fight cancer

64 Las Vegas waitress Cynthia Jay pulls down a $35 million slot pot

69 Tube
Family Law's Kathleen Quinlan trades films for television to spend more time with her family

73 Royals
Prince Ernst August of Hanover, Princess Caroline's temperamental husband, strikes out in Kenya

74 Update
Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones's announcement of the week: She's pregnant

77 Trouble
A decade after Terri Schiavo first fell into a vegetative state, her family wages war over whether she should live

83 Happy
A forgotten Renaissance painting, seen in a new light by Rev. William Murdoch, nets $1.1 million for a Massachusetts church

85 Pages
With Small Miracles, Yitta Halberstam and Judith Leventhal spin real-life stories into publishing gold

95 On the Move
Once as unpopular as the teens they play, Freaks and Geeks' Samm Levine, John Daley and Martin Starr are tasting revenge of the nerds

98 Cover
Britney Spears, pop's teen queen, sounds off about her sexy image, her e-mails to Prince William and the rumor she wishes would go away

108 Yum!
The chocolate-pudding promotion wasn't pie in the sky—it was David Phillips's ticket to a lifetime of frequent flying

111 Couples
In Vermont three gay couples win a landmark court decision and, perhaps, their right to marry

115 Jocks
Vying for a berth on the U.S. Olympic team, equestrian Barbara Silverman races the clock—and cancer

119 Adventure
Swedish climber Göran Kropp rides his bicycle from his doorstep to the top of the world and back

123 Introducing
Her own brushes with racism helped Carmen Ejogo identify with her TV role as presidential paramour Sally Hemings

127 Off the Job
Oh, the stories Joe Szorentini can tell after 53 years as a doorman at New York City's fabled Plaza Hotel

135 Sequel
Robert Downey Jr. is said to be drug-free in prison, but friends wonder if his newfound sobriety will last

4 Mailbag
8 Star Tracks
18 Scoop
23 Online
25 Picks & Pans
53 Insider
89 Style Watch
97 Passages
132 Puzzler
146 Chatter