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Oct 30, 2000 Vol. 54 No. 18

A Body to Die for

October 30, 2000

Cover Story

A Body to Die for

In An Endless Quest to Slim Down, Image-Obsessed Americans Try Surgery, Pills and Starvation—Sometimes with Fatal Results

Pg. 108

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Table of Contents

Articles

Heavy Mettle

They May Have Trouble Reading and Spelling, but Those with the Grit to Overcome Learning Disabilities Like Dyslexia Emerge Fortified for Life

Pg. 56

Running Mates' Running Mates

Two Dedicated Women Back Their Husbands' Vice Presidential Bids

Pg. 62

Maiden Voyage

Titanic Star Kate Winslet and Husband Jim Threapleton Welcome Daughter Mia, the British Couple's First Child

Pg. 66

Kicking Up a Storm

Dropped from the Duke Football Team, Heather Sue Mercer Scores Big in Court

Pg. 69

Waste Watcher

When College Kids Toss Their Belongings Out with the Trash, Lisa Heller Sells the Castoffs for Charity

Pg. 73

Empathy by the Pound

Dr. George Blackburn Sensitizes Doctors by Allowing Them to Experience Ersatz Obesity

Pg. 75

Her Way on the Highway

Safety Czar Sue Bailey Prefers An Hour of Prevention to a Lifetime of Regret

Pg. 79

Meet the Movie Star

Parents' Actress Teri Polo Is Thrilled with Her Break; Just Don't Expect Her to Party

Pg. 91

Object Lessons

Ceos in the Slammer? Stephen Loeb Takes His M.B.A. Students to Jail to Learn the Wages of White-Collar Crime

Pg. 95

Pup Psychology

Stanley Coren Has Some Doggone Good Tips to Help You Choose a Puppy Without Barking Up the Wrong Tree

Pg. 99

Handy Man

When His Star Burned Out, Actor Martin Hewitt Built Himself a Second Career

Pg. 103

Slick Villa

Japanese Mogul Takeharu Shiraishi's Reconstruction of Bill Clinton's First Home Brings Hope (Ark.) to Okinawa

Pg. 121

Heir Force

Singer Sally Taylor Follows the Beat of Her Parents: Carly Simon and James Taylor

Pg. 125

Doubles Partners

Born the Same Day, Two Sets of Identical Twins Find Monozygotic Monogamy

Pg. 129

Hollywood Family Album of the Century

Pg. 137

Just Folks

Four Generations of Windsors Let Their Royal Hair Down (a Little Bit, Anyway) for a Surprisingly Casual Family Portrait

Pg. 147

Taped in the Act

Accused of Rape, a Cosmetics Heir Insists That the Sex Was Consensual

Pg. 151

New Beginnings

At 95, Fledgling Poet Laureate Stanley Kunitz Finds Fresh Woods

Pg. 159

Shock of the Old

In the Family Castle, Simon Howard Unearths An Art Treasure

Pg. 166

Glimmer of Hope

American Lori Berenson, Convicted of Terrorism in Peru, Gets Another Day in Court

Pg. 169

Dream Maker

Kids Won't Sleep? California Singer Patti Teel Crafts Songs Designed Solely to Make 'em Slumber

Pg. 174

Working Stiffs

Visitors to Madame Tussaud's New Square Museum Wax Euphoric Over the Like—and Likenesses—of Figures Form Fidel to Whoopi

Pg. 176

Also In This Issue

Mailbag

Pg. 7

Scoop

Pg. 18

Tube Reviews

Pg. 31

Screen Reviews

Pg. 39

Song Reviews

Pg. 43

Page Reviews

Pg. 49

Insider

Pg. 55

Passages

Pg. 107

Chatter

Pg. 180

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