October 09, 2006

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Extreme Measures

Drastic Thinness Has Become the Reigning Beauty Ideal from Runways to the Red Carpet—and It's Having An Alarming Effect on Girls Everywhere

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Finding a Lost Son

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'We Realized What We Mean to Each Other'

In a TV Interview About the Night Daniel Smith Died, Lawyer Howard K. Stern Says That He Is the "Proud Father" of Client and Longtime Love Anna Nicole Smith's Baby Girl

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Jen & Vince: Here & There

While He Films His Latest Comedy in England, She's Soaking Up the Malibu Sun—and Getting Ready for a Directorial Debut

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Life After Loss

After Her Boyfriend Disappeared at Sea, Olivia Newton-John Moves on Without 'the Most Romantic Person I've Ever Known'

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They Opened Their Hearts—and Home—to Babies Born of Meth-addicted Moms

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My Husband Was No Killer

Melinda Elkins, Convinced Her Husband, Clarence, Had Been Wrongly Convicted of Murdering Her Mother, Set Out on a Dangerous Quest to Find Justice

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Killed by Grief?

Nine Months After the Sago Mine Disaster in West Virginia, Two Surviving Miners Take Their Own Lives

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'I Found My Way Back'

Anne Heche Opens Up About Her New Show, Men in Trees, Life with Her 4-year-old Son and Stay-at-home Husband, and How Her Past Struggles Made Her Stronger

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On Tour with Nick Lachey

His Must-haves for the Road? Junk Food. Video Games. Bar of Hotel Soap

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Take My Jewels Please!

After Her Billionaire Husband, Ron Perelman, Divorces Her, Ocean's Thirteen Star Ellen Barkin Heads for the Auction Block to Liquidate the Ice He Gave Her

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Ashlee Takes a Bow

With Big Sister Jessica Cheering Her On, Ashlee Simpson Gives 'em the Old Razzle-dazzle—and Joins the Club of Stagestruck Celebrities Who've Jazzed Up the Musical Chicago

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Toxic Greens

An Outbreak of the Deadly Bacteria E. Coli, Traced to Fresh Spinach, Sickens Dozens and Kills One—and Maybe More

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On a Happy Note

Ditching Drugs, the Black Eyed Peas' Diva Fergie Finds Success—and the Love of Her Life

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Trader of a Lost Art

Actress Karen Allen Gives Up Screen Time for Knitting and a Shop to Sell Her Sweaters. (Yes, She Really Makes Them!)

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The Rainmaker

Thanks to Burberry's Christopher Bailey, the Once Staid Trench Coat Label May Be 150, but Feels Younger and Hipper Than Ever

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Baby News!

20/20 Anchorwoman Elizabeth Vargas Welcomes Second Son Samuel Wyatt

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"I've Lost My Prince"

In Her First Interview Since the Death of Her Husband, Steve, Terri Irwin Opens Up to Barbara Walters About How She and Her Two Kids Are Coping

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Kevin Costner & Ashton Kutcher

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Happiest Losers!

No Dieting, No Sneakers, No Eliminations: the Biggest Loser Alums Matt Hoover and Suzy Preston Wed in Jamaica

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Billy Bob Thornton

Love Lessons from the Master

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Happy Birthday, Dear LIFE!

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Extreme Measures

Drastic Thinness Has Become the Reigning Beauty Ideal from Runways to the Red Carpet—and It's Having An Alarming Effect on Girls Everywhere

Table of Contents

Happy Birthday, Dear LIFE!

Katherine's Birthday Girl

J.Lo's Sound Check

Kim: A Real Cutie-Pie!

5 Funniest Moments from Daytime TV

David Beckham's Boys Day Out

Adam Lambert: Here 'For Your Entertainment'