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Life Magazine
January 1995 : Cover - Jackie Kennedy, 1929-1994.
Collector's Edition : Life
remembers 1994, the year in pictures. Los Angeles
earthquake, two page photo of the Santa Monica Freeway,
California. Richard M. Nixon. Winter Olympics, Nancy
Kerrigan and Tony Harding, ice skaters. Gay rights -
photo of the mile long rainbow unity flag. Deaf Heather
Whitestone is the new Miss America. President Mandela.
World Cup. Charles & Princess Diana, a couple candid
photos. U.S. in Haiti. Woodstock, the sequel, great
two page muddy photo. War in Rwanda. Jessica Tandy.
Burt Lancaster. Runner Wilma Ruldolph. Full page color
Golf photo of Tip O'Neill. Baseball strike. Kids who
kill. Chemist Linus Pauling. Actress Melina Mercouri
- nice two page color photo. Boxer George Foreman. Actor
John Candy. Power rangers.
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Life Magazine February
1995 : Cover - Pinching an inch of fat. 28 questions
about fat, plus all of the answers. What does the obesity
gene really mean? Why do we always gain back the weight
we lose? Why are the last 10 pounds so hard to lose?
The war orphan who found a home, Arthur Da silva Santos
and Rwandan Angelo (see also LIFE April 1997). Tony
Bennett is back on top with an audience. Rural midwife
Shay Huffman of West Virginia. Winter fishing off Bar
Harbor, Maine. Bud Wiley on the job painting the San
Francisco Golden Gate bridge, another job climbers would
like. Article about court reporter (typing shorthand).
Great four page foldout montage photo of Vanessa Williams
and some of the many costumes and rolls she has during
a single week on Broadway. Nice three page photo of
the Taj Mahal. Crazy photo of Pete Schweers of Florida
swimming in a storm to rescue his catamaran sailboat.
The art of the embrace, hugging.
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Magazine March 1995 : Cover - Rose Kennedy, 1890-1995.
Memories of an Era. Michelle Pfeiffer wears the Hope
Diamond and other legendary jewels. Full page color
Star Trek ad for the starship Enterprise model. Photo
essay of the Kobe, Japan earthquake. American medical
team performs marathon open heart surgery and saves
the lives of 25 dying children in one week in Guatemala,
Tony Rossi, Robert Michler, Maryanne Kichuk, Leo Lopez.
. Nancy Ellison's photos of the American Ballet Theatre's
dancers. Photos of Lead prosectutor Marcia Clark, O.J.
Simpson trial. Photo of a beautiful ice castle in Harbin,
China, lit with colored lights. A new record - the widest
wedding gown, Maria Lembo, Angelo Russo, designer Gianni
Molaro. Way cool full page color photo of men working
on the cables of the Pont de Normandie bridge, the men
were spelunkers, climbers will like this photo! Nice
art photo of Veronica Lynn, Paloma Herrera, others,
dancers. Neat full page color Bacardi rum ad with windsurfers
and snow covered mountain.
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Life Magazine April
1995 : Cover - Baby. Knowing your medical family
tree can save your life. Striking two page photo of
former Hutu soldiers enrolled in Gako camp in Rwanda
for harmonization training. Great two page underwater
photo of a swimming elephant. Lovely art photo of diver
Greg Louganis, AIDS. Neat two page Absolut vodka ad
- Absolut Magnetism. Summer travel special - places
of the year, 1995. The ongoing accomplishments of Lady
Bird Johnson. Journeys - acts of faith. Album of albinos,
white animals, leucism. The look his best in court,
O.J. Simpson has to play by the rules, football. Catholicism
and Acts of Faith, includes four page fold-out photo
of terminally ill persons at the Basilica of the Rosary.
Florida pilot skywriter Jim Butler. The Power Plant,
World Championship Wrestling's professional school.
Grayton Beach, Florida - the best beach in the country.
Neat full page color Benson & Hedges cigarettes
ad with people on top of the Statue of Liberty.
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Life Magazine May 1995
: Cover - Lion cubs. Wild animal babies, how they learn,
how they play, how they survive. Full page color Toyota
Previa van ad with elegant scene in gold. Cool two page
color photo of tuna fishermen of Bonagia, Sicily. Absolutely
awesome four page fold-out black and white photo of
the New York Yankees 1922, with Babe Ruth, 28 men clearly
shown in uniform. Norman Vaughn returns to Antarctica
at age 89 to climb the mountain named for him by Admiral
Byrd. The very troubled Damm family ten years after
the first article in LIFE, Dean and Linda Damm and 4
children. What can be done about unfit parents?Two page
color Marlboro cigarettes ad with cowboy carrying calf
on his horse in the rain. Little photo of 84-year-old
Vishnu Maya "Aama" riding on a motorcycle
with Broughton Coburn (I beleive). A stroll through
a topiary park in Ohio. Photos by a New York Cab Driver,
David Bradford. Sunken city in Italy, Fabbriche di Careggine.
Follow-up photos of Mary Ann Vecchio (Kent State shootings),
Ted Landsmark (civil rights), Ed Whitfield (campus riots),
Phan Thi Kim Phuc (napalm burns). Great full page color
Bacardi rum ad with Dalmatian dogs. Very cute photo
of dog with his head stuck through cat door, Mocha,
Jackie Kniss, Indian Hills, Colorado.
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Life Magazine June
1995 : Cover - Justin and Sydney Simpson at Nicole
Brown Simpson's gravesite. The Simpson Children, one
year later. Meryl and Clint heat up the set of The Bridges
of Madison County. 1995 Dream house. Life goes to graduation
day at the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf.
Brett Butler plays Grace Kelly.
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Life Magazine July
1995 : Cover - Child. How can we keep our children
safe? Sexual abuse, abduction, television, accidents,
neglect, violence, drugs, vulgarity, alienation. The
new Russia is still haunted by the old Russia. John
Evans looses an arm and a hand, has his left hand transferred
onto his right arm with success, gifted surgeon Richard
Brown. Who was Pocahontas? Filly Weekend in Seattle,
sired by Seattle Slew. Portrait : Michael Jackson and
his bride. Life goes to the London Zoo's friendly Spider
Programme.
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Life Magazine August
1995 : Cover - Jackie and JFK. Exclusive : Personal
photographs never before published of Jack and Jackie
in Love. Treasured South Pacific islands of Palau. A
guided tour of the mile around the White House. Kim
Torbitt, paralyzed at 18, meets Mymu, a capuchin monkey.
Portrait : Myrlie Evers-Williams takes the helm of a struggling
NAACP. Life goes to a moondance, Full Moon Rave.
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Life Magazine September
1995 : Cover - Woman sleeping. New science reveals
what dreams can do for you. Everglades, our most endangered
National Park. Rock and Roll comes out of the closet.
Predicting the frail future of an alligator hole. Newly
discovered ancient grave in Sicily. Portrait : Cap Ripken.
This Texas rancher still employs real horsepower to
round up his herd, Buster Welch and the Double Mountain
River Ranch. Gil C. Alicea from the South Bronx writes
a book about his violent youth there, The Air Down Here
: True Tales from a South Bronx boyhood. Arthur and
Franz Lidz go to Hollywood to watch the filming of Unstrung
Heroes.
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Life Magazine October
1995 : Cover - Frank Sinatra as a young man.
Sinatra at eighty, intimate pictures of a life. Two
page color General Motors ad featuring the Nature Conservancy,
John Sawhill, and buffalo. Neat two page color AT&T
ad, Building Bridges part 3, with woman chef and four
Chinese (?) men. Thursday Night Fever at Parrish's General
Store in Bahama, North Carolina, includes Katherine
and Sidney Slaughter, Nathan Ponder, Mary Sue Parrish,
Junior Parrish, others. Neat two page "American
Promise" documentary ad with very colorful carousel
horse. Two page photo of Christopher Nadareski and Peregrine
falcon. The television drama ER. The sad story of Reg
and Maggie Green and the murder of their 7-year-old
son Nicholas while on vacation in Italy, organ donation,
organ donors. Prison chain gangs are back. Tribute to
the famous photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt on his death
at age 96. Life goes to the TV series ER. Big feature
article on a New Birth of Freedom, American democracy.
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Life Magazine November
1995 : Cover - Gulf War veteran Paul Hanson and
son Jayce. The tiny victims of Desert Storm, has our
country abandoned them? - special investigation. The
Iron Dragon train takes passengers through the African
veldt and back into another time. Close-up : Jimmy Carter.
60 years of fads in fashion. Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman.
Life goes to the Pennsic War, organized by the Society
for Creative Anachronism.
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Life Magazine December
1995 : Cover - Angels. On the trail of angels,
search for meaning and comfort in the spiritual world.
Nice two page color Marlboro cigarettes ad with Merry
Christmas theme and riders trotting through snow with
a christmas tree, alpen glow in background. "Sons
of Gestapo" train wreck crime near Hyder, Arizona.
Amazing two page color photo of the birth of a beluga
whale, Qila. Lloyd Dupuy goes flying on an American
flag, Metairie, Louisiana. E.R. for kids, Children's
Hospital in Philadelphia, 72 hours in the Pediatric
Emergency Room, includes Britanny Coleman, Raheem Forsythe,
Sean Latshaw, Shane Webster, Olivia Penque, Kendall
Hauth. Mutant mice, including the absolutely grossest
two page photo you've ever seen of a rodent - this article
is about medical research. Hakeem Olajuwon, basketball
player. Portrait : Oprah. Life goes on the Million Man
March, civil rights demonstration. Photographer Alex
Webb captures Florida. Neat full page color photo of
many referees on a St. Louis ice rink during a National
Hockey League clinic.
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Life Magazine January
1996 : Cover - The Year
in pictures 1995 : Life remembers 1995 - special
issue. Meet the Threetles. The Million man march. A
Newt day dawns. The pope comes calling. The O.J. verdict
that divided a nation. America's pride gets a boost
from Hanks and Lovell. The shock of Oklahoma City. Cal
Ripken. The welfare maze, Dawn Ingersoll. Includes photo
of Princess Diana and princes Will and Harry white water
rafting on Colorado's Roaring Fork River. Oh la la -
RuPaul cross-dressing in the most outlandish and gorgeous
red vinyl woman's outfit. Very nice full page color
Milk ad with Tony Bennett, plus winning photos from
ordinary folks. Two page photo of little Vova Bespalenko,
rescued alive after three days in earthquake rubble
in Russia, Neftegorsk. Two page photo of Cal Ripken
Jr. passed the record mark of 2,130 games set by Lou
Gehrig in 1939. Sad photo of the Deveroux family who
lost a family member in the bombed Alfred P. Murrah
Federal Building in Oklahoma City, big feature article
as well. . Christo wraps the Beichstag. Neat photo of
a Ventura, California man nearly immersed in flood waters.
Maryanne Phillips and the others who were shot during
a subway incident on December 7, 1993 - Colin Ferguson
criminal. Scott O'Grady and Heidi Lowery are honored.
The very, very generous Oseola McCarty. Atrocities in
Sarajevo. More on the orphan Angelo, Arthur Da Silva
Santos.
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Magazine February 1996 : Cover - Astronaut Christa
McAuliffe. Two page color Chevrolet Astro ad with maroon
ad and facing page photo of very muddy young soccer
players. Two page color travel ad for Texas featuring
Roderick Blake, the Santa Elena canyon in Big Bend,
bluebonnets, and more. Page and a half photo of the
very pleased looking Esad Pitic and Senada Karcic at
their marriage in Bosnia-Herzegovina, guns in evidence.
Charming two page photo of little boys in sumo garb
trying to move a real sumo wrestler. Great color photo
of the Talent, Oregon fire department posing in front
of a burning house. Too funny, a leisure suit convention
in Iowa, includes John Mozena, M.G. Trickey and others.
Ten years after our worst space disaster, family and
friends remember the lost heroes of the shuttle Challenger.
Our greatest sports pictures. Master of Jazz - includes
fantastic four page fold-out photo (named) with MANY
jazz artists. Descendants of the illustrious and the
notorious, includes Zapata, Stalin, Franklin, Zeppelin,
Gandhi, Columbus, Jefferson. A dangerous peace is established
in Bosnia, Shirley Gaulden, Martin Begosh, Tim Lamb,
others. Portrait : Bob Dole. Great full page color photo
of Kevin Newton doing a karate stunt breaking blocks.
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Life Magazine March
1996 : Cover - Free Willy. The happiest whale
in the world. This little girl weighed 20 ounces at
birth - a stranger's promise helped save her life, Natalie
Abrams. Hooray for Hollywood, a photographic salute,
includes huge gathering of MGM stars. . Life in the
ranks of the French Foreign Legion, looks pretty horrible
- they must be real tough guys. Portrait : Mayor Rudy
Giuliani, small piece. Great set of photos of Larry
Brehne and Buddy Goldsmith at age 1, 21, 41, and 61.
GORGEOUS two page photo of penguins on blue ice at the
South Sandwich Islands, photo by Cherry Alexander. Gret
photos / portraits by Gregory Heisler. 50 years ago
Helen Candaele St. Aubin (with photo) is the "Ted
Williams of women's baseball." Fun full page Bacardi
Rum ad with Dalmatian dogs in Tropical shirts.
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Life Magazine April
1996 : Cover - Conjoined twins, Abigail and Brittany
Hensel, one body and two souls. Dancer Paloma. Archaeology
goes underwater to raise Alexandria. Looking for America
- Virgin, Utah. Life goes to an all-star shoot-out at
the Golden Globes. Actor Nathan Lane. Japanese artists
and artisans preserving ancient culture.
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Life Magazine May 1996
: Cover - Dream House 1996, designed by architect Michael
Graves. A royal mess, Princess Diana. Lions of the Serengeti.
Oklahoma City one year later (after bombing), and other
disasters like Pan Am flight 103, shooting in McDonald's,
more - includes photos of Rosemary and Harry Koelsch,
Wayne and Wilbert Schmidt, John Cummock, Adelina Hernandez,
Maria Guadalupe Flores, Ava Nelson. A million dollar
deal for Cindy Sherman's haunting self-portraits. Life
goes to China for an adoption, Mary Ann Sherman and
Tom Lund from Woodstock, New York and new child Su Ziaoji.
Editor's note includes a very cute photo of cojoined
twins Abigail and Brittany Hensel taking a photo. Crazy
page and a half photo of van in Surabaya, Java tipping
over - it was overloaded with more than a hundred soccer
fans. VERY nice two page color photo of Ule Buhler climbing
an impressive roof on the Schilthorn, Switzerland.
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Life Magazine June
1996 : Cover - Erupting volcano. Then the big
one hits, volcano. The Pakistani slave children who
make our kids' toys. Phrenzy over a band called PHISH.
Monastery of Christ in te Desert in the Chama River
canyon near Abiquiu, New Mexico, Benedictine monks.
Life goes to the 79th annual International Beauty Show.
David and Peter Turnley photograph human drama.
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Life Magazine July
1996 : Cover - Sprinter Gwen Torrence. This
issue was printed with four different "naked"
covers. Naked power, amazing grace - a photographic
celebration of the Olympic body, athletic beauty, photos
include Mark Henry (weightlifter), Michael Johnson (runner),
Sharon Monplaisir (fencer), Carl Lewis (runner), Mary
Ellen Clark (diver), Gail Devers (runner), Margot Thien
and Nathalie Schneyder (synchronized swimmers), Gwen
Torrence (runner), Jackie Joyner-Kersee (Heptathlete),
Rick McNair - Alex Rousseau - Chris Humbert - Chris
Duplanty (water polo team), Russ Bertram (diver), Holly
McPeak (volleyball). Families of Palestinian suicide
bombers are learning to live with death. Comedian Rosie
O'Donnell is challenging Oprah. Chinese refugees create
art in Pennsylvania prison, origami and more. Life goes
to a Colorado race pitting a pink elephant against a
giant duck, Boulder's Kinetic Challenge. 23 mostly black
churches in the south are burned. Time lapsed photo
of the midnight sun in Loppa, Norway. Holy Cow - wild
photo of Australian Surf Lifesavers in boats in the
surf. Sylvain, who lives in Paris, likes to climb buildings
- photographed with his new wife(?) atop the Church
of Sainte-Clotilde.
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Life Magazine August
1996 : Cover - Climbers on Everest. Exclusive
: what really happened on Everest, a well-done and gruesome
story, incuding Scott Fischer, Lobsang, Anatoli Boukreev,
and others. Neat two page color KOOL cigarettes ad with
somewhat unbelievable picture combining a windsurfer
and a rough surf-on-rocks scene. Nice blue underwater
photo of Navy seals in training with hands and feet
bound. Absolutely odd photo of night time squash game
at the great pyramids, Egypt. California, the rough
edge of the American Dream. World's top female matador,
Cristina Sanchez. Four-generation family, the Condeluci
family of Pittsburgh. Life goes to the Senior Olympics,
includes runner Pat Peterson, Shot putter Herb Steele,
Phil Mulkey. Quality of mercy in Ann Arbor, Michigan
where black Keshia Thomas saves a KKK rally spectator.
Andy Levin photographs Coney Island beach.
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Life Magazine September
1996 : Cover - Alternative healing. The healing
revolution, surgery or acupuncture?, antibiotics or
herbs? Both old and new medicines together are shown
most effective. Jewish in America. Life remembers First
Families in the fishbowl of public regard. One deadly
week of child abuse in America. Photographer Veronique
Vial. Nice full page color Milk ad with Spike Lee. Great
page and half color photo of sprinters Gail Devers and
Merlene Ottey in the 100 metter dash in the Olympics.
CRAZY photo of a snorkler swimming by a huge 50 foot
Whale Shark. Photo of some of the townsfolk of Montoursville,
Pennsylvania which lost 21 people in the explosion of
TWA Flight 800. Disney World's 25th birthday in Orlando.
Neat bunch of photos of people by Frederic Brenner,
portraits. Sad two page photo of Afghanistan women in
full purdah, more, photos by Pascal Maitre. .
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Life Magazine Winter
1996 : Cover - Vintage car tail lights. Special
collector's edition - Hot for the road, 100 years of
the automobile in America. Includes a photo of carhenge.
How the car liberated women. Muscle cars including GTO.
Electric cars and other non-polluting cars. Backseat
rites of passage. Dashboards.
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Life Magazine November
1996 : Cover - Monkey Fetus. The dawn of life,
revolutionary prenatal photographs of humans and animals.
Gay marriage. Political primer, what really separates
Democrats from Republicans. Little boy falls into gorilla
cage in Illinois zoo, photos by Bob Allison of Binti
Jua and boy. 25th anniversary of the silicon chip, a
neat article about computer development. Life goes on
Shore leave with two sailors in New York City, Smith
and Ross. Great page and a half photo of runner Aimee
Mullins with two specially made leg prostheses for running,
Paralympics. Sailors Rusty Smith and Andrew Ross visit
New York City on leave, USS John F. Kennedy. 8 page
glossy color pages of ads for Canon printers. A nice
article about gay marriage, including STeve Habgood
and Mark Sadlek. Gorgeous underwater photos by Howard
Schatz, ballet dancer Katita Waldo.
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Life Magazine December
1996 : Cover - Statue of Virgin Mary. The mystery
of virgin Mary, mother of Jesus. Pennsylvania's Bruderhof
community. Father - daughter relationships, Leon Borensztein
and daughter Sharon. Mechanical heart. Christmas celebrations
around the world. Photo essay - railroads, O. Winton
Link. Sxi page fold-out color ad for Malboro cigarettes.
Very neat full page color ad for Toyota RAV4 with Mount
Moran inside it. Page and a half photo of little Kristina
Jacobson running away from the overturned car in which
she had been kidnapped - armed police all around, Yoncalla,
Oregon. The huge AIDs quilt laid out in the Washington
DC Captial mall. Christmas around the world. Advice
from old to new - Robin Williams and Jonathan Winters,
Chet Atkins and Suzy Bogguss, Cissy and Whitney Houston,
Camilee Paglia and Harold Bloom, Rockhead Johnson and
Jim Brown. Nice full page Milk ad with Patrick Ewing.
Heart Transplants and Artificial hearts.
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Magazine January 1997 : Cover - Wedding of JFK,
Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy. Collector's
Edition : The year in Pictures, 1996. America
mourns the victims of TWA 800 and Valujet 592. Mars
rocks - aliens invade. Super kids. Much more! Two page
yellow and colorful MSN ad. Two page Marlboro cigarettes
ad with hokey use of three different cowboy images laid
into same picture. Nice photo of Cross-country skier
on Brooklyn Bridge in blizzard. Good photo of Eldrick
"Tiger" Woods - golf rookie of the year. A
humorous photo of five photographers taking a picture
of a missing cat - Socks, the First Cat of the Whitehouse.
Big two page sad photo of Julie Stuart, Claire Phythian
and Heidi Snow on the beach marking the first anniversary
of the explosion of TWA flight 800. Another sad photo,
this one of Ekaterina Gordeeva performing an ice skating
routine alone after her husband and partner died suddenly.
Much more!!
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Life Magazine February
1997 : Cover - Human skeleton. A fantastic journey
through the human body. A 21st century look at how doctors
will see us and heal us. How one death-row prisoner
found afterlife on the Internet. Michael Jennings of
East Providence, Rhode Island, with a brain tumor. Life
goes to an enchanted Carnevale in Venice. Photo essay
- Eli Reed's America.
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Life Magazine March
1997 : Cover - Pygmy Loris and Orangutan. Miracle
babies - endangered species back from the brink of extinction.
Painter Andrew Wyeth at 80. Ice skating on Holland's
frozen canals. Rondie Harris and the story of her intestinal
disease and multiple transplants.
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Life Magazine April
1997 : Cover - Liz Taylor. Exclusive, from her
hospital bed Elizabeth Taylor takes about hopes, fears
and brain surgery. A church for the 21st century. Fossil
rustlers and flying sheep, photo essay of the showdown
between the old and new West. David Baileys photographs
rock and roll music. Life goes on the road with the
worlds baddest birders, Paul Pratt, Glenn Gervais, Tom
Hince, Bruce Di Labio - World Series of birding. Whitney
Lee killed by a drunk driver, and his punishment. Angelo
Ntibagilisirwa Ntabambe, Hutu refugee child reunited
with parents.
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Life Magazine May 1997
: Cover - Sara Hogenson, Asthma sufferer. Breathe easy,
new discoveries, smarter drugs, breakthrough therapies
for allergies or asthma. 1997 dream house inspired by
Frank Lloyd Wright and designed by Taliesin. Photographer
Art Wolfe captures the postmodern look of age-old tribes.
Life goes the distance with hundreds of fleet footed
basset hound dogs. Why does a 67 year-old blind woman
adopt handicapped kids no one else will take, Norma
Claypool. Rap Singers Salt-N-Pepa. Galen Rowell reaches
the top of the world, tiny Oodaaq Island.
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Life Magazine June
1997 : Cover - Titanic sinking. Titanic fever,
why we can't look away from disasters, includes story
of survivor Michel Navratil. Chelsea Clinton's last
days at home. Looking ahead to when China takes over
Hong Kong. Landscape artist Wallace Huntington.
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Life Magazine July
1997 : Cover - Astrology signs. Astrology - why
so many of us now believe the stars reflect the soul.
Yellowstone National Park at 125. At home with the boss,
Bruce Springsteen. Aaron Collado and single father Daniel
Collado, both with AIDS. The town of Laguna, California
recreates 1862 photo of Lincoln with real people.
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Life Magazine August
1997 : Cover - Shoulder massage. The healing
power of touch, massage. The day Elvis died. Remembering
Jimmy Stewart. American shopping malls. Closeup - Mel
Gibson. The Bolshoi Ballet. Steve Wulf gets to be the
team mascot, the Manatee. Life goes to the Burning Man
Festival.
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Life Magazine September
1997 : Cover - Oprah. The secret inner life of
America's most powerful woman, Oprah Winfrey. Chameleons.
Buying arms (guns, missiles) in Pakistan. Photographer
Gordon Parks.
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Life Magazine Fall
1997 : Cover - Famous people from the millennium.
Special double issue : The
Millennium, 100 events that changed the world.
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Life Magazine October
1997 : Cover - Toddler in prison. Babies behind
bars, photo essay of the children of women in prison.
It's not easy being JFK Jr. Diana Golden of Bristol,
Rhode Island, her story (disabled skier, winner of gold
in Calgary Olympics). .
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Life Magazine November
1997 : Cover - Princess Diana. Collector's edition
: Diana - portrait of a lady, her favorite photographers,
her favorite photos. Final journey of Mother Teresa.
Macaque attack, monkey business on a Thai city's streets.
Women boxers. Veterans of the "war to end all wars"
take a bittersweet look back across eight decades. Project
Bandaloop dancers on the face of El Capitan, rock climbing
dancers, photos by Galen Rowell.
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Life Magazine December
1997 : Cover - Michael Jackson holding his baby
son. What is the soul? - Deepak Chopra, Shirley MacLaine,
Marianne Williamson, Rev. George Foreman and others.
Anorexia, Jayme Porter and Julie Porter - insurance
companies refuse to pay for help. Three Tibetan children
leave to seek an education in a free land.
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Life Magazine January
1998 : Cover - Princess Diana. Collector's
Edition - The Year in Pictures, 1997. Young women
disposing of unwanted babies. Photo essay - strong women.
Space man of the year, Mike Foale.
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Life Magazine February
1998 : Cover - Man trying to sleep. Why 70 million
of us are sleepless in America - what you can do about
it. Insomnia. Two page color Marlboro ad with usual
studly cowboy in leather, red shirt, branding irons
in fire. The 1998 LIFE dream house by architect Hugh
Newell Jacobsen, a glass house. Prepping for the winter
Olympics in Nagano, article includes a cool night photo
of Donna Weinbrecht on skis on the empire state building,
twin towers in background - other olympic athletes in
sports gear in neat poses in their home town. Master
Portrait artist Chuck Close, after a paralyzing spinal
injury. Lovely full page color photo on one of the contents
page, Laura Ettlinger pregnant - other ladies inside.
Michael Carneal shoots eight schoolmates at Heath High
School in West Paducah, Kentucky - two page photo, some
text. Adrian Targett is a decendent of 9,000 year old
skeleton discovered in Cheddar, England. Charming photo
of Gereco Buckner with firemen, Memphis. A buddhist
monastery cares for the dying, offering a model of compassion
and grace, AIDS patients, Thailand. Photographer Jeff
Rotman and fish. Charming pair of photos of Shannon
Phillips and Ann Connell.
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Life Magazine March
1998 : Cover - Girl holding up photo. Kids' pictures
to God - what children want God to see. Bobby Kennedy
Jr. remembers his younger brother Michael. Grand Forks,
North Dakota rebuilds after the big flood. Amateur dancer
Robert Lipsyte, ballroom dance competition. The last
of the whale hunters, Indonesia.
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Life Magazine April
1998 : Cover - Strand of DNA. Were you born that
way? - Personality, temperament, even life choices,
new studies show it's mostly in your genes (obesity,
aggression, optimism, addiction, more). Worship in the
shadow of religious persecution. Tide pools. An entrepreneur
suits up low-income women for the job market. Moscow's
top brass invade Wakefield, Massachusetts. Legendary
Blues musicians and their admirers talk about blues.
Photography Evgen Bavcar. A year in the life of an apple
orchard.
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Life Magazine Spring
1998 : Cover - The best magazine photography
of the year, the first annual Alfred Eisenstaedt awards.
Hundreds of pictures and the stories behind them. Collector's
edition, the Eisie Issue.
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Life Magazine May 1998
: Cover - The septuplets. Exclusive, raising the septuplets
: Nathan, Brandon, Kenny, Joel, Alexis, Kelsey, and
Natalie McCaughey. Cancer vaccines : teaching the body
to cure itself. Bill Bryson spends three months hiking
along the Appalachian Trail. Saving the Orangutans in
borneo, Birute Galdikas. Kevin Uliassi, balloonist.
Artist Albert Wagner, faith in paint. Photos - New York
city then and now.
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Life Magazine June
1998 : Cover - Doctor David Loxterkamp delivering
a baby in Belfast, Maine. What makes a good doctor?
Practicing medicine the old-fashioned way. Psychics.
Bob Hope at 95. Father's day photos. Honoring RFK. Polar
bears. Redefining beauty - albinos, albinism. A shipwreck
survived, 1904 sinking of General Slocum. Two page State
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Odd two page color photo of company field trip in Korea
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the mud (Fun!). Full page photo of Francina Diamini
crying at a funeral in South Africa. Juan Romero thirty
years after the JFK assassination. Lovely aerial photos
of patterns caused by farming. Photos from the first
year of Ella Rosalind Baker.
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1998 : Cover - Thurston High school students
from Springfield, Oregon. Stopping the bullets : heroes
of a high school shooting. Flight 800 reconstructed.
Disco rediscovered. Maya Angelou's birthday. The eagle
lady, Jean Keene in Alaska. Mississippi cleanup, Chad
Pregracke. Animal E.R., Boston's Angell Memorial Animal
Hospital. Coney Island around the clock. Best car ad
EVER - Nissan Altima.
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Life Magazine August
1998 : Cover - tornado and forest fire. Weather
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can do about it. A day in the life of John Dickson,garbage
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- shooting of Dennis Joos, Scott Phillips, Lester Lord,
Vickie Bunnell. Dog day care (great article) : KETCH
K-9 Educational Training Center of Hillsborough. Cuba's
great pitcher Orlando Hernandez flees to America. The
Carousel and Red Grooms. Manta Rays. Roberto Arno, his
deformity, and his incredible spirit in over-coming
the handicap.
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Magazine October 1998 : Cover - John Glenn, returns
to space. The Last hero - John Glenn. A Louisiana Grandma
fights big industry, Esmelda West. Waiting for the Virgin
Mary, the madonna in Conyers, Georgia at Nancy Fowler
farm. Wyeth's lost masterpiece. Raising Cheetahs, David
and Carol Cawthra Hopcraft. Winners at the Iowa state
fair. Mercury Seven and flying ace Chuck Yeager. A day
in the life of Laura Droge, Pony girl.
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Life Magazine November
1998 : Cover - Christopher Reeve. Thanksgiving
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to Iceland. Christopher Reeve counts his blessings.
Former prostitutes - quitting the streets. Four adventurers
cross the Atlantic in a homemade raft, Betsy Terrell,
David Pearlman, Rodger Doncaster, Edward Garry. Backstage
at the Emmys. Residents of a fading Florida community
make a stand to save it, Stiltsville. Wonderful photo
of dinosaur trackway in Bolivia. Verna Johnston, California
environmentalist.
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Life Magazine December
1998 : Cover - Words "Frank McCourt : when
you think of God what do you see? (author of Angelas
Ashes). Around the world on the Queen Elizabeth 2. In
search of the man called Moses. U.S. prisoners are providing
wheelchairs and hope for disabled people in two dozen
countries. Gail's gift - her letters after death, Gail
Farrow, Ronald Watson. Harp music for the dying. Life
in India, true colors. A day in the life of tree farmer
Bill Dennis.
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Life Magazine January
1999 : Cover - Special
Issue - 1998 The Year in Pictures, collector's
edition. Heroes of the year, including Mark McGwire
and Sammy Sosa, Katie Couric, Dennis Slamon, Louis Ignarro,
Morris Dees, Ellie Dahmer, Sang Lan, Winston Sie, Shirley
Bumgardner, Margaret Rowe, John Glenn, Keith Ursel,
Muhammad Ali. Sequels to 1998 stories, McCaughey septuplets,
Hensel twins and others. A dozen endangered plants and
animals making a comeback. Funny photo of flamingos
in the men's room during Hurricane Georges. Photo of
the rusty bumper of a truck - gruesome reminder of the
James Byrd Jr. murder story. Winners of "I want
to Meet" contest. Vikki Sloviter with Betty Tisdale.
Hope Lobkowiez with dolphins. Amanda Edmundson with
Rosie O'Donnell. A story doesn't appear in LIFE because
Chuck Hirshberg and Susan WAtts are kidnapped in Honduras
and lose the film and notes. Two page color Milk ad
with the cast from Frazier. Neat two page State Farm
Insurance ad with golfer Mildred "Babe" Didrikson
Zaharias, vintage photo. Sad two page photo of starving
children in Sudan. Wild two page photo of devastation
in Honduras after Hurricane Mitch. Yankees Chuck Knoblauch,
Joe Girardi, and Mriano Rivera celebrate a record 125
wins. Two page Chevrolet ad with hockey player Cammi
Granato. Runner Florence Griffith Joyner dies in her
sleep at age 38.
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Life Magazine February
1999 : Cover - Queen Noor and King Hussein of
Jordan. The Science of Love : what researchers now know
about how we fall in lvoe and why we stay in love. Sobriety
High - where troubled teens get a clean start. Helicopter
named Bubba tops off the West Baden Springs Hotel. Getting
roses from the grower to the lover. Blind rock climber
Erik Weihenmayer. Life in capitalist china. Sarah Knauss,
at 118, is the world's oldest living person.
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Life Magazine March
1999 : Cover - Teenager Katie Homes of Dawson's
Creek. The secret lives of teens, they tell us their
private thoughts on sex, drugs, parents, and more -
includes teens Christin Maxwell, Chris Mabry, Arielle
Angel, Emily Urich, Monica Orbe, Mikeal Earle Jr., Joann
Kang, Arielle Etienne, Kenny Rodriguez, . Minnesota's
governor Jesse Ventura gives politics a new look. Vintage
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funeral. Circus school in Brooklyn. U.s. military doctors
help injured in Honduras after Hurricane Mitch. Dublin
Ireland cowboys. Very Gruesome photo of mass grave in
Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan. Paramedics Thomas Gangone
and Erik Alberti.
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Life Magazine April
1999 : Cover - The Shows that changed America,
60 years of Network television (I love Lucy. The Simpson's.
Big Bird, Dallas, 60 minutes and others). Prince William
Sound ten years after the Exxon Valdez oil spill. The
great African cyberbiking expedition by Dan Buettner
and Beth Wald. Last days at the Leprosarium, leprosy
hospital in Louisiana. A huge museum of bugs, insects.
Basketball star Chamique Holdsclaw helps girls pursue
hoop dreams. Backstage secrets of the Ringling Brothers
Circus. Coal miners in Vietnam. Championship Girl Scout
cookie selling. A day in the life of debutante Catharine
Elizabeth Hamilton.
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Life magazine June
1999 : Cover - Steven Spielberg and father. What
makes a good dad? - Life's fatherhood test. Family tales
from Doug Flutie, Rob Reiner and others. Antiviolence
programs for kids, school violence. Oyo of Uganda, world's
littlest king. Nurse without borders, Mary Lightfine
in Kosovo. pilot Madge Rutherford Minton (see cover
story of July 19, 1943). What kind of people get married
at City Hall? Underwater photojournalism by David Doubilet.
The high school years of Frank Sinatra. Rosy Diaz and
her fight for access to water, Johnny Subdivision in
Texas.
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Life magazine July
1999 : Cover - Baby. Boy or Girl - what's the
difference?, how hormones determine your behavior. Apollo
11 30th anniversary, looking back with the men who walked
the moon. America's most unusual dogs. Hard rockers,
holy rollers. Boot camp for bull riders, Brett Leffew.
Thomas Jefferson's children, Sally Hemings. Kalashnikov
kids, abandoned Russian children. Bolivia's Indian miners
at Potosi.
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Life Magazine August
1999 : Cover - Jacqueline Kennedy and daughter
Caroline in 1959. Five years later, remembering Jackie,
rare and unpublished pictures and memories from her
favorite photographers. The boys of Echo Troop, on patrol
with the U.S. Army in Kosovo. Saving the White Sands
Mustangs, wild horses. Immigrants - exotic flowers.
Baseball played by the old rules. Julia's eye - Julia
Ibargolly Leon in Cuba, Orbis flying hospital. Survivors
of Cambodia's brutal civil war.
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Magazine September 1999 : Cover - Student Maggie
McGregor at New Trier High School, Northfield, Illinois
(see also cover of October 16, 1950). Is your kid's
school good enough? Was yours better? School articles
include Carrie Brandon at Park School in Mill Valley,
Califronia, Ora Breckenridge of Memphis, Mercedes Smith,
Samuel Turner IV, others. Two page color Marlboro cigarettes
ad with quite a lovely photo of cowboy riding next to
reflecting lake with pine trees, humorously wearing
yellow slicker on nice day. Two page State Farm Insurance
ad featuring "Life hero" football player Chris
Zorich. Full page color Oshkosh clothing ad with little
Hayes Kimball. Poignant letter to editor from Madge
Rutherford Minton pertaining to the death of her husband
Sherman A. Minton. Two page color photo of the shrine
of candles, flowers and such created following the disappearance
of JFK Jrs airplane. Photo and short clip about bicyclist
Lance Armstrong winning the Tour de France, his first.
Cool photo from Lynn, Massachusetts where a broken water
main made a geyser and a flood. Dale Gilsdorf's dilemma
- the will to live vs. the right to die. The Hudson
river reborn. Fred Rochlin and Old Man in a Baseball
Cap. Cold snap, beluga whales and polar bears. Volunteers
are restoring planes of World War II, Floyd Bennett
Air field, Luciano Barry, Irving Krasner, Arnie Migliaccio,
Jimmy Maffucci, Richard Postel, Arthur Kunhardt. The
Nuba of Sudan, Africa. Photos retouched through Soviet
history.
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Life Magazine October
1999 : Cover - Great Pictures of the Century
and the stories behind them, Collector's Edition. You
will recognize many of these photos and enjoy the stories.
Two page State Farm Insurance ad featuring wheel chair
athlete Rick Hansen. Full page color Suzuki ad with
lots of mud and a Grand Vitara. Cigna health care ad
with a feature on the Chris Spielman family. Photojournalism
over years including neat two page photo of early flight
at Kitty Hawk, Full page photo from the very crowded
gold mine in Brazil, Serra Pelada, Two oil-covered petroleum
workers trying to cap a well. Photo of Keith Richards
backstage at a Rolling Stones concert in 1972. Many,
many more photos and whole stories reprinted from the
decades past - a neat issue!
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Life Magazine November
1999 : Cover - Lisa Massaro, waiting for a heart
transplant. Ten thousand miles on ten-inch wings. migrations
of the bird Red Knot. Medical disaster team charges
into the wraith of Hurricane Floyd. Sibling rivalry
at the annual Nantucket - Martha's Vineyard football
game. D-Day plus 55, three veterans again on Omaha Beach.
American families : Bichelmeyer in Shawnee, Kansas.
Brodoff and Grotsky in Lacey, Washington. Brino family
in Rosamond, California. David and Celeste Grant in
Minneapolis, Minnesota. Armstrong and DeFelice families
in Towson, Maryland. Desert Blast, bash of a secret
society of pyrotechnists - "If you see someone
running, run quickly in the same direction."
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Life Magazine December
1999 : Cover - Artwork of the Wise men greeting
Jesus. 2000 years of Christianity, the meaning of the
millennium. Fetal surgery, healing babies before birth.
Jeff Rotman and 25 years of photos of sharks. Dancing
the Nutcracker at Lincoln Center, Jan Burkhard. Peru's
Nazca giant drawings. Five women tell us what they learned
from near-death experiences, Vesna Vulovic (plane bombed
at 33,000'), Rosmarie Dousse (shot by terrorists), Michelle
Funk (66 minutes under icy water), Margaret Crotty (shipwrecked),
Delizia Cirolli (cancer). New fashion in Paris - Le
Friday Night Fever.
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Life Magazine
January 2000 : Fold-out Cover - JFK, Jr. and
Carolyn Bessette Kennedy. Special
issue : 1999 - the year in pictures. Bob Greene,
a time for new beginnings. The comeback kid - Patrick
Ireland, from the Columbine high school shooting incident.
The President's hopes for the new millennium. Cleaning
up in the wake of Hurricane Floyd. Kosovo refugee Zyrjete
Korqa, Zeta's new home. Life remembers - a fond farewell
to the legends who left us.
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Life Magazine
February 2000 : Cover - Celine Dion and Rene
Angelil renew their vows. Celine Dion, why I left it
all for love. Cokie and Steve Roberts, making the marriage
work. Secrets of the centenarians, how to live past
100 : Harry Shapiro of Pinsk, Russia, Fran Sumner of
San Jose, California, Miriam Friedman of Milwaukee,
Wisconsin. John Trotter, my life turned upside down
after a brutal attack. Aerial portraits of planet earth,
including a heart shaped mangrove swamp. Crash test
dummies in burning vehicles. A rare California butterfly
is making a comeback. Acupuncture for pets.
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March 2000 : Cover - Jason Behr, Katherine Heigl
and Brendan Fehr of TV's Roswell. UFO's - why do we
believe? Quite a beautiful two page color Virginia Slims
cigarettes ad that doesn't show any cigarettes or smoking
activity! Neat photo of Carnival dancing spinning that
makes them look just like tops. Cool photo of an ice
temple in China lit up with different colored lights.
GREAT photo of Daisy Mora zip lining to school in Colombia
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The 2000 census, includes photos of Ashley Roy, Ashley
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Miguel and Pedro Gallegos Garcia, Pao Yang, Gordon Hastings,
Donna Shaw-Coon, and others. Nice photo of Jamie Lee
Curtis with surfing gear. Snow geese, doing too well.
Loosing a baby, Leslie and Ted Dawdy. . Brazil's version
of Mardi Gras, Carnival by photographer Helmut Teissl.
Sapphire mines in Madagascar - Includes amazing photos
of primitive and dangerous mining techniques.
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Life Magazine
April 2000 : Cover - Pope John Paul. The Pope
travels to the Holy Land and his past. Saving her child,
a daring transplant, Blake Bourgeois and Melissa Bourgeois.
Jordan's new first family. Tribute to Ed Clark, one
of LIFE's finest photographers. Museum goers in Las
Vegas are encouraged to touch the art. Life and Times
: Joni Mitchell, Rupert Everett, Madonna, Haley Joel
Osment, and more. Saving the dead, Kabayan mummies.
Today's hot young comics honor the comedians they love.
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Spring 2000 : Cover - The best magazine photos
of the year. Special edition
- the 2000 Alfred Eisenstaedt awards, the winning
pictures and the stories behind them.
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May 2000 : Cover - Jason Michael Waldmann Jr.,
premature baby. Born too soon, the high-tech, high-risk
drama of keeping the tiniest babies alive. Sumarno,
A family man in Jakarta proves that hope is stronger
than any hardship or handicap. Tornado in Texas, home
of Macy and Gilbert Velasquez. Pepper Bonjour and her
Bassett hound Dharma nursing squirrel babies and kittens.
Follow-ups on past stories
in Life magazine : Nguyen Thi Tron by November
8, 1968, Flavio da Silva from 1961, Arabella Churchill
from 1954, Sarah Marie Switzer from 1999, Conjoined
twins Abigail and Brittany Hensel from 1996. Life
trivia : George story appeared as a baby in the
first picture in the first issue of Life November 23,
1936 and died on April 4, 2000, only days after it was
announced that Life would no longer be published as
a monthly. Love in later life : Eve Ferber and Ed Batchelor,
Al and Christina Poshusta, Lauvilla and Charlie Cross.
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