23 SCOOP
Katie Couric prepares to set sail from Today ... Britney Spears and Kevin Federline party in Dallas ... Chad Michael Murray gets engaged ... Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes await their baby
68 COVER
Whether having fun with her kids Hazel and Phinnaeus or making her Broadway debut, the play's the thing for Julia Roberts
62 Matt LeBlanc takes up with his sexy Joey costar after splitting with wife Melissa McKnight
66 Back in Chicago, Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn check out the local real estate
75 Donald Trump's kids Ivanka and Donald Jr. join Dad on this season's The Apprentice
78 Weekend Today's Campbell Brown weds FOX News analyst Dan Senor
80 American Idol finalist Kevin Covais returns home
83 Just why Mary Winkler killed her minister husband remains a mystery
86 Beating extraordinary medical odds, Randal McCloy Jr., sole survivor of the Sago Mine disaster, comes home
90 Scott Foley talks about life after his divorce from Jennifer Garner and his new role on CBS's The Unit
94 College students spend their spring break helping clean up New Orleans' devastated Ninth Ward
97 A psychiatric center uses electrical shocks to discipline some patients. One parent wants it to stop
102 Gwen Stefani, Brooke Shields and Gwyneth Paltrow gear up for new arrivals
108 NYC Medics answer a 911 call—from earthquake-stricken Pakistan
117 Billy Ray Cyrus feels right at home on the film set of Hannah Montana—his costar is daughter Miley
120 Cosby kid Raven-Symoné is now a high-powered showbiz adult
131 Inspired by his blind 8-year-old son, Eric Ligon comes up with a novel design for children's books in braille
135 Animal rescuer Carole Noon relocates neglected and traumatized laboratory chimps to an island sanctuary in Florida
138 Author Hope Edelman knows how hard it can be to become a mother after having lost your own
140 Chart-topping country music trio Rascal Flatts dish on love, hair and life on the road
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
MAILBAG 8
PEOPLE.COM 10
STAR TRACKS 12
SCOOP 23
PICKS & PANS 37
INSIDER 61
CRIME WATCH 93
PASSAGES 101
ROYAL WATCH 118
PUZZLER 122
STYLE WATCH 125
CHATTER 142
ON THE COVER Photograph by Jim Spellman/WireImage. Inset: Santiago Baez/Ramey. Right Insets (from top): Lisa Rose/JPI; Lawrence Schwartzwald/Splash News; INF
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