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What’s
New
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Grownup-Friendly Stores
You’ll find larger print
and sunlit aisles
14 Jane Lynch
Her autobio isn’t
entirely Glee-ful
16 Gene Hackman
Why he quit movies
to write novels
18 Entertainment
The liberation of
Gloria Steinem
Money
31 Land Your
Next Job
Retraining classes
that lead to
rewarding jobs
34 Top $ecret
Don’t let Internet
crooks steal your
financial info
Plus: Learn to spot
off-line fraud
36 Cash Back
She was owed a
$30,000 refund—
but the check was
hardly in the mail
Health
20 Sleep In!
It helps slow aging
22 Eye Savers
Six ways to protect
your peepers
26 Dr. Oz
More sex, less stress
28 Hold the Sugar
Great fruit preserves
without all that
white stuff (and all
those calories)
Travel
39 Ask the Locals
For tips on the
top spots in a
new place, check
with real insiders:
firefighters, taxi
drivers, and other
plugged-in types
40 The Fake SOS
When a distraught
“relative” writes or
calls for emergency
overseas funds, ask
the right questions
before you send a
single dime
28
LIFE’S A PEACH…
Especially if you can
preserve it, sugar
free, for next winter.
The Best of Your Life
70 Ready to Rumba
After decades off the dance
floor, a former nurse realizes her
ballroom dreams
72 Pushing the Envelope
Her homemade greeting cards
could be a smash, but first she’ll
have to quash her fears
73 No Frills, No Grills
A simple, tasty, in-the-oven
barbecue recipe left more
precious time to hang with Dad
74 Love and the Older Woman
Seventeen years younger than
his wife, he learns that while
people aren’t ageless, love is
76 Puzzles
Big 5-Oh
88 Rob Reiner’s
next movie stars
Virginia Madsen,
left, who turns
50 in September.
Plus: Ex-Soprano
James Gandolfini,
trumpet master
Wynton Marsalis,
Melrose Place beauty
Heather Locklear,
NCIS hunk Mark
Harmon, Mork’s pal
Pam Dawber, and
Dallas meanie Larry
Hagman
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