NOTEBOOK

By JANICE M. HOROWITZ, NADYA LABI, LINA LOFARO, JAMIE MALANOWSKI, EMILY MITCHELL, VICTORIA RAINERT AND ALAIN L. SANDERS

WINNERS & LOSERS

THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF FAMILY VALUES

[WINNERS]

LOURDES MARIA Her Material Mom scores at the Golden Globes, then splits early after talking to sitter

NEWT GINGRICH Blood is thicker than politics as sister Candace praises Newt at gay-rights ball in D.C.

MIA FARROW She portrays herself as the Misunderstood Matriarch in a life-with-Woody memoir

[& LOSERS]

"BABY RICHARD" Biological dad fought for and won custody of the tyke, but now leaves him in the lurch

BARBRA STREISAND Skips Inaugural, sparking rumors that White House won't let her shack up with beau Brolin

DWIGHT GOODEN During his father's funeral, a thief filches jewelry worth over $30,000 from the pitcher's home

THE HUMAN SPECTACLE

The face has not changed, but how we adorn it has. Yes, eyeglasses are utilitarian, but frames follow fashion as much as function. "They can reveal a lot about the times," says Robert Marc, an upscale New York City eyewear designer and retailer. The shape of the decade is marked by the shape of the lenses. Put your glasses on and play the Frame Game: guess who was wearing what when.

a) The Age of Limits: 1940s Small is necessary, not beautiful. Heavy glass rules out large lenses.

b) The Age of Utilitarianism: 1950s Plastic means mass production, and nerdiness rules.

c) The Age of Possibility: early 1960s Technology reduces distortion and weight, and form follows function.

d) The Age of Expressionism: '60s to '70s Do your own thing. And say it with your glasses. The frame as statement.

e) The Age of Individualism: '70s to '80s If they fit, wear them. Tailored, unisex and rounded.

f) The Age of Nostalgia: 1990s Hey, the Founders wore them, and now it's hip to be oval.

a) Harry Truman; b) Buddy Holly; c) Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis; d) Gloria Steinem; e) Diane Keaton; f) Julia Louis-Dreyfus

THE RAMSEY-EYE VIEW

From her home in Roswell, Georgia, Nedra Paugh, the 64-year-old grandmother of JonBenet Ramsey, indignantly surveys the media frenzy in Boulder, Colorado. Her granddaughter's childhood, which the papers depict as abnormal, was nothing of the sort, she says. Referring to a story in the Globe purportedly offering photographic evidence (a bruised elbow) that JonBenet had been physically abused, the incredulous grandmother tells TIME, "I know all about what happened. I was there. JonBenet had climbed up on a stool to look at her hamsters in their cage, and she somehow pulled the whole cage down on top of her." JonBenet's aunt Pam Paugh, who lives in Atlanta, has had about enough of all the rumors. "Drug abuse? Absolutely not!" she tells TIME. As for her sister Patsy's obsession with pageants, says Paugh: "The fact is JonBenet was in her first pageant a month before she turned five. She did nine pageants in her life--nine, not dozens. I would hardly call that an obsession." --Reported by Leslie Everton Brice/Atlanta

NUMBER OF THE WEEK 1,630,940

The Justice Department's latest tally of the number of people in prisons and jails in the U.S.

POPULATION PARALLELS

1,700,000....Houston (fourth largest U.S. city) 1,650,000....Nebraska (37th largest U.S. state) 1,700,000....Graduate students in U.S. universities 1,500,000....Active U.S. military personnel

HEALTH REPORT

THE GOOD NEWS

--Less anxiety for pregnant women on PROZAC: preschoolers who were exposed in utero to Prozac or tricyclic antidepressants like Elavil don't seem to suffer intellectual or behavioral impairment as a result--even if the moms used the drug during their entire pregnancy.

--Diminishing the dangers of BYPASS SURGERY: in a major study, an experimental drug called Acadesine cut in half the risk of a patient's dying during or soon after the heart operation. It also reduced by at least 25% the chance of a heart attack or stroke from surgery.

--Go ahead, eat like a horse. The FDA is allowing foodmakers to claim OATS may help the heart, provided they also state that the grain must be part of a low-fat, low-cholesterol diet.

THE BAD NEWS

--The cure can cost you. HOSPITAL PATIENTS pay as much as $4 billion a year for treatment of adverse reactions to drugs they're prescribed. Up to half the problems could be avoided with simple measures--like better tracking of patients' allergies.

--Elderly drivers, be warned. In early findings the government reports that AIR BAGS may have no net benefit for drivers over 70. The bags' explosive force can crush frail, aging bones--even cause death. Advice: sit far from the bag, and wear a seat belt.

--More confusion about MAMMOGRAMS for women under 50: the National Institutes of Health finally made a decision about whether the screening test is of value to younger women. Its conclusion: women should decide for themselves.

Sources--GOOD NEWS: New England Journal of Medicine; Journal of the American Medical Association; Food and Drug Administration BAD NEWS: Journal of the American Medical Association; National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; National Institutes of Health

LOCAL HEROES

MARTY POSTLETHWAIT, 36; LENEXA, KANSAS; co-creator of Shadow Buddies

Marty's son Miles, 9, was born with congenital birth defects. Throughout his 34 surgeries, he felt the need to identify with a friend like himself. So he and his mom created "buddies," custom-made dolls whose features match the disease or disability of the patient: the oncology doll has tubes; the orthopedic doll has leg braces. About 13,000 buddies have been distributed by hospitals and corporations.

DR. JOHN SHOEMAKER, 41; SHERMAN, TEXAS; dentist

The patients come to him in the worst of circumstances--with broken jaws, cracked teeth or few teeth at all--but Dr. Shoemaker gives them a reason to smile. Since 1983, he has helped reconstruct the faces, and indirectly the lives, of battered women at the Crisis Center, a local shelter. "Unfortunately, there are not always happy endings," the dentist cautions. "But at least to help them get out in public is important."

WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

KOO STARK, 40; LONDON; photographer, former actress

Before Sarah Ferguson captured Prince Andrew's heart and the tabloid headlines, there was American-born Koo Stark, a onetime soft-porn film starlet whose liaison with the prince sparked media madness in 1982. After Andrew returned from the Falklands war, the two were sighted frolicking on Mustique. Stills of a nude Koo from her notorious films were splattered across the London tabs. Koo later married Tim Jefferies, heir to a trading-stamp fortune, but the union lasted only a year. Since then she has run her own photography business. Always discreet concerning her romance with Andrew, she is reportedly still a friend of his. In August they danced together at a party thrown by the Yorks. Koo is expecting her first child next month, but has refused to divulge the identity of the father. A Buddhist since meeting the Dalai Lama, she told HELLO! magazine, "I am...dedicating myself to whatever it takes to tether this soul...to a base from which she/he may fly freely."

With reporting by LESLIE EVERTON BRICE/ATLANTA