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"I have to get married soon, or my dad is going to kill me," said 31-year-old Jessica Belzer, a No. 169 sticker hanging precariously from her angora sweater. "So getting on The Bachelor could save my life!"

In today's online economy, anything -- and everything -- is legal tender.

Does Barbara Kopple's new film, set in the Summer of Lizzie, miss the real Hamptons?

The city's single women knew we could do everything men could, even in our Jimmy Choos. But while we were busy with business, bars, and Barneys, did we miss out on motherhood? For the Sex and the City generation, it looks like the rules of the game have changed.

Christa Worthington left the glitz of the Manhattan fashion and journalism worlds for the simpler life of a single mother on Cape Cod. But when she was murdered, she left behind a beautiful 2 and 1/2-year-old daughter, a long list of potential suspects, and the realization that her life wasn't so simple after all.

In the last few years, yoga became downtown's glamorous answer to organized religion (not to mention a way to lose stress -- and fat). But after September 11, the discipline has taken on new meaning. The story of one woman's body search.

For thousands of new yorkers, happiness is a $375, three-day self-help Seminar. Welcome to EST: The Next Generation

Monica Lewinsky came to New York in search of a second act. And so far, she's made a better go of it than, say, Bill Clinton. She attends glamorous parties, goes on "half blind" dates, and has a nascent business designing purses. In fact, she seems to enjoy life as a one-name celebrity -- though she'd rather not discuss what she's famous for.

It's been a whirl of stretch limos, Veuve Clicquot, and $1,000-a-plate charity dinners for Christian Curry ever since his scandalous case with Morgan Stanley was settled. So what if the firm claims they didn't pay him a dime? He's the life of the party.