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...resculpted her nose, removed the bags from under her eyes and sucked fat from her neck, chin and other parts. "It's amazing," marveled Lucianne Goldberg to the New York Post. "It looks like she's had a head transplant." Almost. Meanwhile, Tripp dyed her hair and shed 40 lbs. through diet and exercise, and she's trying to drop 20 more. Perhaps she should phone old pal Monica Lewinsky, who recently lost 31 lbs. for Jenny Craig. Or perhaps...
Audiologists estimate that 3 out of every 1,000 babies are born with some kind of hearing loss. Of those three infants, one is profoundly deaf. About half the time, doctors can identify a possible cause, such as a birth weight less than 5 lbs. or a family history of deafness. The rest of the time there is simply no clue as to why a newborn's hearing may have been affected...
...only did he carry several false identity cards alongside his Canadian passport in the name of Benni Noris, but the well of his car trunk revealed a chilling cache: 10 plastic bags loaded with 118 lbs. of urea, two 22-oz. jars three-fourths full of a volatile liquid similar to nitroglycerine and four small boxes containing circuit boards connecting Casio watches to 9-volt detonating devices. The man trying to enter the U.S. 17 days before the millennium was carrying enough explosive material to take out the Seattle Space Needle. He was also carrying a plane ticket to London...
...chief suspects, fears have also been raised about doomsday cults and crackpot racists in the U.S. Two middle-aged men were arrested in Sacramento, Calif., this month on charges of plotting to blow up two massive propane tanks. And federal agents are investigating the theft of nearly 1,000 lbs. of dynamite and ammonium nitrate from an Arizona rock quarry last week. While such incidents may be unrelated to the millennium, they are being closely investigated by a host of law-enforcement agencies, including the FBI, the CIA, the Defense and Treasury departments and Customs...
After Ripley, for which he lost 25 lbs. in order to appear pale and skinny, Damon spent a month learning to ride and bulking up for his portrayal of an 18-year-old cowboy in All the Pretty Horses, which will be released in late 2000. When Ripley director Anthony Minghella visited Damon on that set, he barely recognized him. "He was like the more successful, more centered, more handsome, just generally more masculine and surefooted cousin of Ripley," he says. And as Damon conducted a barrage of press interviews for Ripley, he was squirming under a brace because...