January 13, 2003

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Losing Large

No Hollywood Trainers, No Personal Chefs, No Surgery: How Eight Regular People Shed 1,027 Lbs.—And Changed Their Lives—by Banning Bingeing and Taking the Stairmaster One Step at a Time

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History or Hoax? A Bizarre Sect That Believes in Space Aliens Announces the Birth of the First Human Clone, a Girl Named Eve

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Love Shaq

NBA Star Shaquille O'Neal Adds a New Ring to His Collection: A Wedding Band

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Alone at the End

Long Estranged from Her Daughter, Dr. Laura's Mother Dies Mysteriously

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Enough Already

Squalid Rumors and a Year of Drama Put Britain's Princes William and Harry to the Test

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A New Man in Her Life

Sex and the City's Cynthia Nixon Takes Home a Really Cute Guy

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Shooting Star

Herb Ritts Let His Subjects Shine—and Captured Some of the Most Memorable Images of Two Decades of Celebrity

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Back on the Beat

David Caruso Regains Stardom on CSI: Miami, and This Time He's Staying Put

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I'll Take That One

Trista Rehn, Once a Brokenhearted Bachelor Runner-Up, Picks a Winner on The Bachelorette

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Holiday Sorrow

On Christmas Eve, Laci Peterson, Eight Months Pregnant, Took Her Dog for a Walk—and Disappeared

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Got It Maid

After Years of Struggle, Marissa Matrone Shines Up Her Career in Maid in Manhattan

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All That Baz

Moving on from Moulin Rouge, Baz Luhrmann Turns a Century-Old Opera into Broadway's New Hot Ticket

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The Spy Who Gonged Me

A New Film Poses An Old Question: Was Game Show Guru Chuck Barris a CIA Spook?

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Water Warrior

Homemaker Terri Wolfe Battles Bottlers Over the Fate of America's Springs

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Bluff Daddy

He Reigns on the Charts and Wants to Take Hollywood, but Ja Rule's Wife and Kids Really Rock His World

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Tackling JFK Jr.

Newcomer Kristoffer Polaha Takes on a Daunting Role, Playing the Ultimate American Idol, John Kennedy Jr.

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Melting the Ice

Skating Back into the Limelight, Five Olympic Champions Star in TV Specials and Talk Up the Joys of Love and Marriage

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Danson Partner

Becker's Nancy Travis Rekindles Her Baby Love with Ted Danson

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Second Sight

When It Looked as If Blindness Would End His Own Painting Career, Tim Lefens Created a Way to Give Severely Disabled Students a Chance to Express Themselves

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Baby, It's You (2002)

They're Rich, Famous and Sleep-Deprived. But These New Celeb Parents Are All Smiles as They Ring in the New Year with New Babes

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Rolling With the Stones in 1969

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Losing Large

No Hollywood Trainers, No Personal Chefs, No Surgery: How Eight Regular People Shed 1,027 Lbs.—And Changed Their Lives—by Banning Bingeing and Taking the Stairmaster One Step at a Time

Table of Contents

Rolling With the Stones in 1969

J.Lo's Sound Check

Kim: A Real Cutie-Pie!

Katy & Russell's Movie Date

5 Funniest Moments from Daytime TV

David Beckham's Boys Day Out

Project Runway's Irina Wins It All