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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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