January 14, 1991

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Big Gain, No Pain

Chubby Again, Oprah Winfrey Drops Dieting and Develops a New Attitude Toward Carrying Her Weight

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Homicide No. 119

In Boston a Savage Crime Leaves a Troubled Young Woman Dead, Her Father's Dreams Shattered, the Police Under Fire, and a City Asking Itself Just How Cheap Are the Lives of the Poor

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Headlining a Host of Holiday Hitchings, Tom Cruise Quietly Marries Aussie Nicole Kidman...

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...Mary Lou Retton Revels in Texas

In Houston the Former Olympian Goes the Whole Nine Yards—of Tulle—as She Vaults into the Big Event, Grinning as Usual

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Emmylou Harris

Her LPs May Not Top Charts Like They Used To, but Few Voices Soar Higher in the New Nashville She Helped Shape

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Implanted Under the Skin, a New Contraceptive Protects Women Against Unwanted Pregnancies for Five Years

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Charles Johnson's Ship Comes in with a Book Award for Middle Passage, His Seafaring Saga of a Freed Slave

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In a Christmas Miracle, Little Brittany Eichelberger Is Pulled Back from the Brink of a Cold Death

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Kathryn Fuller Makes Her Name in Science with Ants in Her Plants

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The Baptism of Britain's New Princess, Eugenie, Is a Real Howl

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Survivors of Tennessee's Freeway Pileup Recall How 1-75 Became a Highway to Hell

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So, You Think Latin Is Tough? Some Virginia Grade School Kids Take Half Their Classes in Japanese

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Want An Ecologically Correct House? Architect Michael Reynolds Builds Earthships Out of Beer Cans and Tires

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Macarthur Grant Winner Maria Varela Shepherds a Rural New Mexico Community Toward Economic Rebirth

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Honestly (We Think), the Real Milli Vanilli Turns Up with a New LP And, This Time, No Video Stand-Ins

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Free Safety Ronnie Lott, the 49ers' Softhearted Hit Man, Takes Aim at a Record Super Bowl Three-Peat

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As the Godfather Tries for Another Hit, Fans Count the Family Casualties

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Stars' Silly Faces: Whose Is Best?

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Big Gain, No Pain

Chubby Again, Oprah Winfrey Drops Dieting and Develops a New Attitude Toward Carrying Her Weight

Table of Contents

Stars' Silly Faces: Whose Is Best?

Selena's Holiday Animation

Pam: Malibu's Most Flaunted

Kellan's Hot Shot

5 Funniest Moments from Daytime TV

Rihanna Gets Glammed

V's Morris Chestnut & Elizabeth Mitchell: It's a Geek Debate!