Role models

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  • The hemline effect

    With the economy in the toilet, one mother cheers the return of modest clothing.
  • Quote of the day

    A witness to Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi's wedding wishes opponents of gay marriage could have seen it.
  • Girl crush: Julia Child

    America's favorite chef was also a top-secret WWII spy.
  • Girl crush: Dara Torres

    The Olympic swimmer is "doing it for all the 40-year-old moms out there." Swoon.
  • Beyond the pale

    L'Oréal denies lightening Beyoncé's skin color in an advertisement.
  • Losing her religion

    Televangelist Joel Osteen's wife sued for anxiety, hemorrhoids and shaken faith.
  • Olympian bodies, mommy edition

    Some female athletes find that pregnancy and childbirth improve their game.
  • Quote of the day

    Teri Garr is a loose cannon -- in the best possible way.
  • Estelle Getty, thank you for being a friend

    The Golden Girl died this morning at the age of 84.
  • All hail Kay Ryan

    The newly appointed poet laureate aims to "prevent all bad poetry from being published during [her] reign."
  • Is a black princess that hard to imagine?

    Disney rethinks its first African-American heroine amid accusations of racism.
  • The bikini theory

    Helen Mirren proves that winning an Oscar for playing a British monarch 20 years your senior doesn't mean you can't rock a two-piece suit.
  • Ingrid Betancourt freed

    After six years in captivity, the political reformer is rescued from Marxist guerrillas in Colombia.
  • A crack in the Army's glass ceiling

    Pending Senate approval, Lt. Gen. Ann E. Dunwoody will become America's first female four-star general.
  • So was it a "pact," or more of an informal agreement?

    Controversy continues to stir over the supposed "pregnancy pact" at Gloucester High School.
  • Girl crush: Velvet d'Amour

    A celebration of the 5-foot-8, 300-pound model who is anything but "the staid, asexual, catalogue, muumuu chick."
  • Girl crush: Cyd Charisse

    Remembering one of Hollywood's most elegant dancers.
  • Girl crush: "Top Chef's" Stephanie Izard

    It's rare that the person who deserves to win actually does -- and makes Bravo history, to boot.
  • Girl crush: Bethany Hamilton

    After losing her left arm to a shark, Hamilton not only kept surfing but launched a line of lip products that can be used with one hand.
  • Hero of the day

    A Chinese police officer keeps quake orphans alive by breast-feeding them.
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