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LIFE AFTER DEATH ROW
On the morning that Hurricane Irene slammed into the East Coast, most of Damien Echols’s new neighbors had fled their homes, but not Echols, who stood on the balcony of his friend’s apartment in his […]
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FROM BEVERLY HILLS TO A MEXICAN JAIL
Raised in Beverly Hills, Mother Antonia gave up wealth and privilege to help Tijuana’s condemned.
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VALERIE HARPER
Valerie Harper has accumulated more than four decades’ worth of television memorabilia during the course of her extraordinary career, and right now much of it is cluttering the dining room of the cozy 1930s Spanish-style […]
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END OF THE TRAIL
Lured by idealism or demons unknown, hiker Christopher McCandless found a lonely death in Alaska DUSK WAS FALLING WHEN BUTCH Killian called it quits after a day of moose hunting in the Alaska wilderness 100 […]
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MOZART AND THE WHALE
When Jerry and Mary Newport met, the connection was instant. A musical genius and a mathematical wonder, the two shared astronomic IQs, but they also shared something else — they both were diagnosed with Asperger’s […]
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THE SECRET TO SERENITY
Worried about tomorrow? Eckhart Tolle has helped millions to embrace today Clouds the size of Zeppelins roll past the 16th-floor window of his apartment, but Eckhart Tolle barely gazes at the majestic scenery before pulling […]
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SHAUN WHITE
With untouchable snowboard moves, millions in endorsements and now two Olympic gold medals, what will Shaun White do for an encore? Shaun White talks pretty much the way you’d expect a 23–year-old California-born snowboarder to […]
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LETTERS FROM SCOTT
Haunted by her seven months on the Peterson jury, Richelle Nice reached out to the convicted killer. The story of a most unusual correspondence She keeps them in a tattered manila envelope that she stashes […]
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INSIDE THE MIND OF BTK
This incredible story shows how John Douglas tracked and participated in the hunt for one of the most notorious serial killers in U.S. history. For 31 years a man who called himself BTK (Bind, Torture, […]
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The Secret World of Daryl Hannah
Daryl Hannah is puzzled. Thirty minutes into lunch at a hip eatery in Venice, Calif., the owner drops by her table to say how thrilled he is to see her back at his restaurant. After […]
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STRENGTH & GLORY
For Marine Cpl. Kionte Storey, the Warrior Games are about more than proving he is still an athlete despite losing his leg to an IED in Afghanistan. After leaving his unit he missed being part […]
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AMANDA KNOX
On a fine November day Amanda Knox did something she could only dream of doing for four long years: She went for a leisurely walk. Knox and her close friend Andrew Seliber took his rescue […]
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TV’S SISTER WIVES
WIFE #1: Meri Brown: The First Love WIFE #2: Janelle Brown: The Career Woman WIFE #3: Christine Brown: The Homebody WIFE #4: Robyn Brown: The Newcomer THE HUSBAND: Kody Brown The Man of the House […]
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HIGHER PURPOSE
As Tom Whittaker struggled to keep conscious the night of 27 November 1979, his thoughts focused on a singular plea: Please, don’t let them take my legs. Earlier that evening, a drunk driver struck Tom’s […]
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FELIX BAUMGARTNER
Felix Baumgartner breaks the speed of sound—without an aircraft Not long before skydiver Felix Baumgartner jumped from a helium-filled balloon 24 miles above the Earth, he sat in an Italian restaurant in Los Angeles to […]
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STAYING ALIVE
SLOGGING THROUGH THE HIP-DEEP snow on frozen feel, icy flakes stinging his face, Jim Stolpa could think of only one thing: the wife and baby he’d left behind in a tiny cliffside cave. It had […]
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TEEN SAILOR ABBY SUNDERLAND
Her dream to saivtolo ended when her boat capsized, but this adventurer has no regrets.
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MEDIA STAR TO MELTDOWN
When the Kony 2012 campaign was at the height of its viral frenzy on March 12, with millions having viewed the charity video that brought Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony into the world’s crosshairs, it wasn’t […]
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BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT?
For years John Mark Byers believed he knew who the devil was. After the naked, hog-tied bodies of his 8-year-old son Christopher and two of his friends were pulled from a drainage ditch not far […]
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REBECCA MUSSER
One morning six years ago, Rebecca Musser buttoned up her brightest red blouse, walked defiantly into a St. George, Utah, courtroom and stared from the witness stand into the eyes of Warren Jeffs, the self-described […]
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THESE DOGS MIGHT SAVE YOUR LIFE
On the floor in Michael McCulloch’s research lab is a row of five identical plastic specimen boxes: One contains a breath sample from a woman with ovarian cancer; four are controls from healthy women. Each […]
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MAN VS. WILD‘S BEAR GRYLLS
He’s paraglided over the Himalayas, escaped from quicksand and snacked on a still-wriggling snake. But a few months ago, Bear Grylls finally met up with a challenge he couldn’t handle. “This nomadic tribe in the […]
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A DREAM COME TRUE
“I can help my family now.” DOUGLAS AYALA, 22, came to this country at age 13 from Guatemala with his parents. “They came to find better opportunities,” says Ayala, who works as a bill collector […]
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BACK ON EARTH
He hasn’t been on his snowboard in more than six months, yet Kevin Pearce can recall with clarity the sensation of soaring 30 feet above the ground, lingering for a few weightless moments, then pivoting […]
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1965-2012 RODNEY KING
About once a year, Rodney King would be watching TV in the living room of his Rialto, California, bungalow when a program would flash the infamous footage of him being beaten nearly to death. The […]
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A LIFE CURSED BY MONEY
Once a favorite grandson of the world’s richest man, John Paul Getty III seemed destined for days of boundless affluence and leisure. Instead, the family billions bought him a life rich in over-the-top drama-and painfully […]
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BELLA & TARRA BFFS
Bella, a 35-lb. mutt, loves chasing rodents. Tarra, 8,500 lbs. of pure Asian elephant, gets her kicks rolling logs. Yet despite these and more significant differences, the two are inseparable. For seven years they’ve romped, […]
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HELPING AMERICA’S VETERANS GET BACK TO WORK
It’s been another long and brutal workweek for machine specialist Greg Erlandson and, as on every Friday evening, the soft-spoken Navy veteran is racing to his Oceanside, Calif., home to log on to his computer […]
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A ROCKIN’ NEW LIFE
Just before noon on the field behind Chico Junior High School, Sawyer Goodson, 13, sits at his drum kit, oblivious to his three bandmates and the dozens of kids watching him. Idly tapping a drumstick […]
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DAMIEN ECHOLS
Since his release from death row last summer. Damien Echols has found himself savoring the small things. “Last night I sat on a park bench eating ice cream and just watched the moon,” he tells […]
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