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Reports on how Hillary Clinton, wife of United States President Bill Clinton is coping now that her husband has confessed to having a sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky. How Hillary feels torn to be angry and protect her husband; Time she has made for their daughter Chelsea; How Hillary helped prepare her husband for his appearance before the grand jury. INSET: Advice to Hillary from the pros.

Reports on the story of Paula Johnson, who discovered that her three-year old daughter Callie was not her biological child. How she made the discovery; Evidence that her biological daughter was switched at the hospital; News that Johnson's biological daughter had become an orphan; Comments.

Profiles Diana Diaz de Veer, who was severely injured in a car accident in which a sport utility vehicle (SUV) crashed into her car. Injuries sustained and rehabilitation needed; De Veer's decision to seek legal action against the manufacturers of SUVs; How the cars are designed; Comments.

Profiles Judge Susan Webber Wright, who dismissed the Paula Jones sexual harassment suit against United States President Bill Clinton in April 1998. Reactions from legal experts; Background; Education; Appointment to position of Federal Judge in 1990 by then US President George Bush; Comments.

The article profiles Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. Pelosi, a 10-term Democrat from San Francisco, will take over as the nation's first-ever woman Speaker of the House on Jan. 4, 2007. Pelosi insists she won't shrink from an ambitious agenda that includes raising the minimum wage and passing new ethics rules. INSET: THE SPEAKER SPEAKS.

The article reports on the scandal surrounding Congressman Mark Foley, who sent sexually explicit e-mails and text messages to male congressional pages. Foley, who resigned after the story was made public, was active in the creation of legislation to require harsher punishment for sexual predators who target children. The revelations could have implications for the midterm elections, further strengthening the Democrats.

This article presents information about how Tracie Lee Dean's suspicions and persistent amateur detective work rescued a young girl and teenage boy from an abusive couple. Dean, who once worked with destitute kids and whose father and uncle were police officers, recognized a vacant look in the eyes of a young girl at a convenience store. She tracked down the couple the girl was living with and alerted police. The man has been charged with rape and sodomy and the woman with child abuse.

This article presents information about how Marylin and Eric Christian used forensic DNA testing to locate the dog that killed their cat. Dog hair taken from the dead cat's mouth matched a neighbor's dog. The Christians tried to get the dog declared dangerous by county officials but were unsuccessful. Animal DNA is becoming a more widely used forensic tool in animal investigations. INSET: ANIMAL DNA: Who Knew?.

The article profiles prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, who indicted I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby in the CIA leak case. The unmarried, 44-year-old special counsel works very hard for his indictments. After a two-year investigation, he brought five charges against Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff. The Libby charges are the latest in a 13-year streak of high-profile, and sometimes dangerous, cases. Fitzgerald, the son of Irish immigrants, won convictions of, among other international terrorists, sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman for organizing the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.

Focuses on the social activities of Nancy Reagan one year after the death of her husband, former U.S. President Ronald Reagan. Description of Reagan's visit to the White House, hosted by President and First Lady George W. and Laura Bush; Description of Reagan's social activities during a trip to the east cost of the U.S.; Comments on Reagan's process of recovery from the death of her husband; Comments of friends on Reagan's emotional state one year after her husband's death.

This article focuses on Joan Kennedy, ex-wife of Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy, and her battle with alcoholism. On Tuesday, March 29, Boston philanthropist Stephanie Warburg got a call from her old friend Joan Kennedy to say that she wouldn't be able to keep their dinner plans for that week. Shortly after 5 p.m. the day before, Kennedy, 68, had been found sprawled on a sidewalk not far from her condo in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood with a bloody gash on her head. At first, according to Constance Bacon, 35, the local artist who found her, Kennedy, well-dressed in black pants and wool overcoat, tried to wave off any help. Kennedy was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital, where she was treated for a concussion and multiple shoulder fractures. Joan, who is an active volunteer and serves on the board of a number of charities, never remarried after her 1983 divorce from Ted, who has tacitly acknowledged his own problems with alcohol. Since pleading guilty to drunk driving in 1974 in Virginia, she has undergone a string of alcohol-related arrests and hospitalizations.

This article focuses on the murder of Jessica Gonzales' three daughters, by her estranged husband, in 1999. Gonzales called the police repeatedly following the girls' disappearance. Yet the police did not put out an A.P.B. on his truck. Gonzales filed a $30 million lawsuit against the department a year after the tragedy. On March 21, 2005 her case made its way to the Supreme Court.

This article focuses on the efforts of the five sisters of Robert McCartney, who was killed in Belfast, Ireland by members of the Irish Republican Army, in bringing his killers to justice. Not long ago on a street in downtown Belfast, Donna McCartney spotted coming out of a store a man who she believes instigated the vicious beating on Jan. 30 that took her brother Robert's life. As members of the Irish Republican Army--the outlawed paramilitary group fighting for Northern Ireland's separation from Great Britain--they control Catholic enclaves like the McCartneys' Short Strand neighborhood with guns, intimidation and an ironclad code of silence. Joined by Robert's fiancée, Bridgeen Hagans, the sisters-Gemma, 41, a nurse; Paula, 40, a student; Donna, 38, a businesswoman; Catherine, 36, a teacher; and Claire, 27, a teacher trainee-have taken to Belfast's streets, leafleting their neighborhood and publicly urging 72 alleged witnesses to cooperate with police. According to a witness who described the murder to the sisters, Robert, 33, and a friend, Brendan Devine, 31, were drinking at Magennis's Whiskey Cafe when a senior IRA man accused Robert of making a rude gesture at his wife. Robert denied it, and mayhem erupted: Devine was slashed across the throat with a broken bottle, and both he and Robert were beaten, their chests cut open and left for dead outside the pub. Robert died at a hospital the next morning, by which time tapes from the pub's surveillance cameras had gone missing and all traces of blood were scrubbed away. The McCartneys have received bomb threats, including one called in to a Belfast newspaper. After 12 suspects were arrested and then released for lack of evidence, the sisters summoned the courage to challenge the IRA. The women have stepped back from jobs to focus full-time on persuading witnesses to talk.

This article reports on the honeymoon of singer Britney Spears and her husband Kevin Federline on Turtle Island. Nothing says honeymoon like an island in the South Pacific, with swaying hisbiscuses, colorful fish, $1,975-a-night beach bungalows-and Britney Spears and Kevin Federline enjoying it all, a month after their surprise wedding. The couple flew in a chartered 14-seat Global Express jet for 10 hours from Southern California to Fiji's Nadi International Airport, arriving at 5: 45 a.m. Oct. 18 for a 10-day retreat on secluded Turtle Island. Guests at the 500-acre resort stay in private bures (bungalows), with handwoven ceilings, Jacuzzi baths and king-size four-poster beds. There are ample opportunities for snorkeling, kayaking, horseback riding… and lomi-lomi massage, said to release emotional stress and encourage harmony between the body, mind and soul. The pop singer-already stepmom to Federline's two kids, daughter Kori, 2, and son Kaleb, 3 months (both with his ex-girlfriend, actress Shar Jackson, 28)-also says she's temporarily leaving showbiz.

The article discusses the 5-month sentence being served by Martha Stewart at Alderson Federal Prison Camp in rural West Virginia for conspiracy and obstruction of justice. On her third day in prison she endured a mandatory strip search and the issuance of prison khakis and T-shirt. For Alderson's 1,040 female inmates--most of them in on drug offenses--visiting hours run 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. from Friday through Sunday and 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Mondays. The usually packed visitors' area includes a patio and the swing sets. Stewart, 63, spent much of her first weekend there playing Scrabble and Yahtzee with her daughter Alexis, 39, and Kevin Sharkey, a friend and editor at Stewart's magazine Living. Clearly, Stewart is not in Westport anymore. She'll sleep in the dorm while undergoing a series of physical and mental tests to determine what prison jobs she is suited for, some of which--such as landscaping the 159-acre campus--would seem to play to her strengths. Like all other prisoners, for the first 90 days Stewart will be assigned to kitchen duty. And prison food--mostly carbs and meat like pressed turkey or fried chicken--will be a shock.

The article discusses how on Oct. 8, Martha Stewart will turn herself in at the Alderson Federal Prison Camp in Alderson, W.Va., and begin serving her sentence for conspiracy and obstruction of justice. Despite the nickname "Camp Cupcake," this minimum-security facility won't be a picnic for prisoner No. 55170-054. After that, Stewart's life as one of 1,040 inmates at the nation's oldest federal prison for women will be strictly regimented: A 6 a.m. wake-up, followed by a breakfast of toast and cereal; a 71/2-hr. workday (at 12 to 40 cents an hour), broken by a lunch of cold sandwiches; a starch-loaded hot dinner at 5 p.m., followed by an evening of games, exercise or TV, with lights out at 10 p.m. Stewart gave the impression of trying to do just that in the days prior to leaving her eight-room colonial home in Westport, Conn., to take up residence in either a dorm or one of Alderson's doorless, cramped two-person cubicles. Through the summer, Stewart turned up at premieres and parties, contracted to sell her Manhattan apartment for $7 million, celebrated her 63rd birthday at her harborfront estate in Maine and rushed to put the finishing touches on her newest estate in Bedford, N.Y. The prison camp's 44 unarmed guards are likely to studiously ignore the celebrity status of Stewart. "To avoid any appearance of favoritism," says David Novak, a former minimum-security inmate who now counsels soon-to-be prisoners, "Mrs. Stewart's going to be held to even the pickiest rules that other inmates may not." Whatever happens, predicts Stewart's friend Richard Feigen, "she's going to take it in stride."

The article discusses MCADD, a rare but treatable hereditary disease that prevents the body from metabolizing fats. Ben Haygood seemed healthy. Then one hot afternoon in August 2000, Ben began vomiting at daycare. After a desperate 911 call, Ben was helicoptered to a medical center in nearby Tupelo. By then he had stopped breathing, and despite doctors' best efforts, "they never got him back," says Robin. "He died within 12 hours of showing symptoms." A month later the Haygoods learned that their little boy's death could have been prevented with a simple $25 blood test at birth. Since the 1960s, all states have instituted tests for congenital disorders in newborns, done by squeezing a few drops of blood from an infant's pricked heel. But beyond screening for PKU the requisite number of diseases tested varies wildly. INSET: THE BASIC NINE.

This is an article that focuses on Elizabeth Edwards, wife of Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards, and how she may be an asset to his campaign. Elizabeth Edwards is ready for the slings and arrows of the campaign trail. That just-one-of-the-gals openness--about seesawing dress sizes and a love of cheesy pop songs--may make Elizabeth, 55, the Democratic ticket's most valuable player. While Republicans are lining up to take swipes at her telegenic husband (some have called John a "Breck Girl"), they are giving plaudits to Elizabeth, a former bankruptcy lawyer who now serves as her husband's closest advisor and image consultant. A natural campaigner who has earned a reputation in Washington as a political strategist (during downtime, she now prefers briefing books to light reading), Elizabeth wins fans with humor, joking that she dyes her hair so she doesn't "look like John's mother." Bargain hunting for clothes and airfares--despite three houses (in Georgetown, D.C., and Raleigh and Figure Eight Island, N.C.) and the family's multimillion-dollar net worth--is a habit Mary Elizabeth Anania picked up as a Navy brat whose family moved every few years.

This is an article that discusses how Senator John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate in his campaign for United States President in 2004. The little girl's voice on the line was not exactly what she expected--but the message delivered was just what Elizabeth Edwards had desired. As the wife of one of a handful of top contenders to be Democrat John Kerry's vice presidential running mate, Elizabeth was waiting anxiously by her phone in Raleigh, N.C., early on the morning of July 6 for her husband to call. Capping a top-secret, four-month search, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry announced he had chosen Edwards, 51, a senator from North Carolina--and former rival for the Democratic nomination--to join his quest for the White House. Striking within minutes of the announcement, Republican operatives tagged Edwards as an inexperienced lawmaker who could claim little in the way of success, or even action, during his single term as a senator in Washington. Democrats, for their part, praised Edwards's energy--he helped raise $2 million for the Kerry campaign before he was even tapped--and hope the son of a Carolina mill worker will add regional appeal to the ticket.

San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom grants marriage licenses to gay couples--and sparks a national movement. In his office at San Francisco City Hall, Mayor Gavin Newsom is talking about the moment that launched a thousand weddings. On Jan. 20 he was in Washington, D.C., to attend the State of the Union address when President Bush praised the Defense of Marriage Act, a law that defines marriage as an act between a man and a woman. Says Newsom: "At that point in my mind I realized the President was going to use this as a wedge issue to divide this country. I felt offended by it." Newsom's wife, "Court TV" host Kimberly Guilfoyle Newsom, who has been listening quietly, suddenly perks up: "If the people in that room only had a clue what you were going to do!" After huddling with his advisers back in San Francisco, some of whom warned he was about to commit political suicide, Newsom jump-started the national debate over gay marriage on Feb. 12 by issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Mayors in towns and cities across the country were soon following Newsom's lead, heartening supporters of gay marriage--and calling to arms those who oppose it. Newsom vows to keep up his crusade, although the matter is now in the hands of the courts. In the meantime, with his matinee-star good looks and an obvious flair for political theater, he has already emerged a winner.

The article discusses the role of Teresa Heinz Kerry in the campaign of her husband, presidential candidate Senator John Kerry. John Kerry, 60, the junior senator from Massachusetts, scored a victory in the New Hampshire primary on Jan. 27, thereby cementing his position as the Democratic front-runner one week after his upset victory over former Vermont governor Howard Dean in the Iowa caucuses. Heinz Kerry, the multimillionaire, multilingual daughter of a Portuguese doctor raised in Mozambique, doesn't fit the stereotype of a candidate's dutiful wife. Once regarded as a loose cannon for her candid comments on everything from male fidelity to her own beauty regime, Teresa is now being hailed as a valued, if unconventional, asset. Behind the scenes on a recent day of campaigning in the Granite State, with her husband teetering on the brink of a serious cold, Heinz Kerry shifted easily into the role of protective spouse, chiding aides about the visibly gaunt senator's care and feeding. INSET: THE WOMEN BEHIND THE MEN WHO WOULD BE PRESIDENT.

The article discusses how Sophie Gayter was molested by Bryan Hornby, the director of the club's camp for kids, at the Wyndham Resort on St. Thomas while the family was vacationing. After the Gayters learned of the incident and went to authorities, Hornby was quickly arrested and convicted in a Virgin Islands court for unlawful sexual contact with a minor and sentenced to five years in prison. But the case has led to a civil suit, and that's where the controversy comes in: The Gayters are suing Wyndham International, the parent company, for compensatory and punitive damages, and--noting in court papers that most child molesters have multiple victims--are seeking to force Wyndham to help them determine whether Hornby abused other children under his care. Last year, as part of the civil suit, Wyndham tried to block a request by the Gayters for the names of 150 families whose kids had contact with Hornby, so that the former guests could be canvassed about possible molestation. The company argued that the Gayters were simply stirring up trouble and that this would "have a significant and irreparable negative impact on the hotel's bookings and reservations."

This article discusses the life and death of attorney Jonathan Luna. It took Jonathan Luna more than three decades to make himself an inspiring success story. Raised in the projects of The Bronx, he'd gone on to excel in law school and fashion a promising career as a federal prosecutor in Baltimore. But it took almost no time at all for him to become the center of a bizarre and troubling mystery. Six hours after Luna, 38, left his office at the Baltimore federal courthouse about 11:30 p.m. on Dec. 3, his body was found 90 miles away in rural Lancaster County, Pa. At first investigators operated on the assumption that Luna's murder was somehow tied to his work as a prosecutor: On the morning his body was found he was due in court to finalize a plea bargain in a case involving two violent heroin dealers.

The FDA may bring back silicone breast implants--but not without a fight from angry women. Diagnosed with advanced breast cancer two decades ago, Sybil Goldrich underwent a double mastectomy at age 44--then promptly consulted plastic surgeons about silicone gel implants, which since the early 1960s had been the prevailing method of breast reconstruction. "The doctors all said the same thing," she recalls. "Implants are the best for you. They'll last a lifetime." Not for Goldrich. Instead, they brought her years of hell. She went through four sets of implants because of cascading complications--including fever, rashes and a buildup of scar tissue from the surgeries that left her in excruciating pain. After she had a hysterectomy in May 1988, surgeons found that silicone had leached into her uterus, ovaries and liver. The ordeal transformed Goldrich into an activist. Rallied by former Waltons star Mary McDonough, a group of Hollywood actresses, all of whom experienced trouble with silicone breast implants and had them removed, met last month to send a message to the FDA discouraging it from reconsidering the implants. INSET: STARS JOIN THE BATTLE AGAINST SILICONE.

Wesley Clark, the former four-star general and CNN commentator ended weeks of speculation on Sept. 17 by announcing he is running for President. Clark has generated instant buzz--and, according to a CNN poll, leads the Democratic pack and even President Bush--by pledging support for causes like abortion rights and strong opposition to Bush's handling of the war in Iraq. But critics say Clark, who only recently revealed his party affiliation, is a political novice who comes late to the race--with a small war chest. Raised a Southern Baptist, Clark learned at 23 through a distant cousin that his dad, a World War I veteran, had been the son of Russian Jewish immigrants. In 1999 Clark led the successful campaign against Serbian ethnic cleansing in Kosovo but was later relieved of his post after clashing with a Cabinet member.

The article discusses how Terry Fitzgerald is one of the 261 people being sued by the Recording Industry Association of America for copyright infringements. For a while now, downloaded music has been the soundtrack to daily life in the Fitzgerald household in Mansfield, Mass. Whenever 14-year-old Courtney was sending instant messages to friends or doing schoolwork, she'd log on to the file-sharing Web site Kazaa, download songs by such favorite acts as 50 Cent and listen to them on her headphones. Backlash over the RIAA lawsuits has prompted Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) to plan for hearings in the next few weeks on the controversy. In the meantime Terry Fitzgerald says he has had to hire a $100-an-hour lawyer to fight the suit against him. Another RIAA target, Lynette Neuman, 54, a Concord, Calif., single mother and accounts payable clerk, wishes she could afford to. INSETS: Five Burning Questions About Downloading;WHAT CELEBS HAVE SAID.

Queen Noor spent months sitting on the sprawling balcony of her McLean, Va., home, poring over the journals she has kept since childhood. Looking back was painful for Noor, 51, still mourning Hussein's 1999 death at age 63. Noor's devotion to Hussein is at the heart of "Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life", which traces her transformation from Lisa Najeeb Halaby--a Washington, D.C., native with a bachelor's degree in architecture and urban planning from Princeton--into Hussein's fourth wife and a devotee of Islam. Hussein (who had eight other children by three previous wives before marrying Noor in 1978, when she was 26 and he 42) chose his oldest son, Abdullah, now 41, to succeed him. With no official duties, Noor now travels to Jordan only about once a month, splitting the rest of her time between the U.S. and London.

Profiles Chelsea Clinton, daughter of former U.S. President Bill Clinton and Senator Hillary Clinton. Chelsea attended a gala at London, England's Victoria & Albert Museum honoring the late fashion designer Gianni Versace, and the press was eager to take her photograph. Chelsea was escorted by her Rhodes Scholar boyfriend Ian Klaus, and flanked for much of the evening by the pair of unlikely friends she has made in a year of travelling around Europe, Madonna and Donatella Versace. Chelsea is in the second and final year of study for a master's in international relations at Oxford. Ian Klaus is from Marin County, California and is a graduate of Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri. Klaus has attended family events with the Clintons. There is no doubt about the depth of feeling between Chelsea and Klaus.

Discusses the efforts of Democrat Kathleen Kennedy Townsend to campaign for gun control in her plight to become the governor of Maryland. Views of her opponent Republican Robert Ehrlich Jr; Criticism of Townsend's involvement with Governor Parris Glendening; How Townsend managed her uncle Ted Kennedy's senatorial campaign; Her role as deputy assistant U.S. attorney general in the Clinton Administration; Impact of the sniper attacks in the Washington D.C. area on the gubernatorial election.

Discusses the role of Montgomery County, Maryland Police Chief Charles Moose in the investigation and capture of the alleged criminal snipers in the Washington D.C. area. Criticism of Moose by criminology experts; Use of dialogue and communication with the killer; Moose's career in law enforcement; His work to involve the community with the efforts of police officers; Relationship with his wife Sandy. INSET: THE HUNTERS.

Focuses on the significance of the birth of a daughter, Nicole Yvette Coyne, to Trish and Christopher Coyne following the September 11, 2001 tragedy.

Reports on the offer of thanks through a scholarship fund for students in Lewisporte, Newfoundland, by members of Delta Flight 15, who were stranded there on September 11, 2001.

Focuses on the response of US Airways pilot Thomas Heidenberger to the loss of his wife, Michele, in the crash of American Airlines Flight 77 on September 11, 2001.

Focuses on the efforts of Somerset County, Pennsylvania coroner Wallace Miller to console families grieving from having lost relatives in the crash of Flight 93 on September 11, 2001.

Reports on the formation of a highly trained volunteer rescue squad, the Southfork Tactical Rescue unit, by Bill Callinan, the fire chief of Southfork, Kentucky, with help from his wife, Roswitha and fellow firefighter Ron Luster, following September 11, 2001.

Reflects on September 11, 2001. Impact of the tragedy on Americans; Introduction to stories of people who have shown courage, selflessness, and hope, including Carolyn Manning and Katy Soulas.

Profiles Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent Coleen Rowley, the woman who wrote a letter accusing the bureau of ignoring important intelligence prior to the September 11 terrorist attacks. Details of the letter which alleges that bureaucrats at FBI headquarters hampered attempts by Rowley's Minneapolis, Minnesota office to launch an investigation of Zacarias Moussaoui, the man later dubbed the 20th hijacker; Reputation of Rowley; Biographical information; Expectation Rowley will be called to testify before the U.S. Congress.

Presents comments from Jeannine McIntyre, a widow who was pregnant at the time of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States.