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By REBECCA WINTERS Monday, Sept. 27, 2004
    • What to Read When You're Feeling Sorry for Yourself
    This fall brings books by two authors who lost an arm in gruesome sporting accidents and continue to play the game. For the curious — if not brave — armchair athlete, a reader's guide:

    THE BOOK: Between a Rock and a Hard Place

    THE ATHLETE: Aron

    Ralston, 28

    THE TALE: Ralston cut off his right arm after it got crushed by a boulder while he was rock climbing in Utah in May 2003.

    LIKELY READERS: Guys who shop at Campmor

    CREATIVE TOURNIQUET: A water hose

    GRISLY QUOTE: "Using the blade like a paring knife, I slice through a pinky-finger-sized filament."

    THE BOOK: Soul Surfer

    THE ATHLETE: Bethany Hamilton, 14

    THE TALE: A tiger shark attacked Hamilton as she surfed in Hawaii last Halloween, chomping off her left arm and taking a bite out of her board.

    LIKELY READERS: Girls who shop at Wet Seal

    CREATIVE TOURNIQUET: A surf leash

    GRISLY QUOTE: "I felt pressure and kind of a jiggle-jiggle tug, which I now know was the teeth."

    Like Father, Like Daughters — But Better
    Genetic miracles result when STEVEN TYLER fathers girls. The daughters of the wide-grinned Aerosmith vocalist resemble him — yet they're smokin' hot. Witness actress Liv, 27, child of Tyler's onetime lover, model Bebe Buell; model Mia, 25, child of Tyler's first wife, model Cyrinda Foxe; and now CHELSEA, 15, child of his second wife, designer Teresa Barrick Tyler. (Tyler's youngest child is a boy named Taj, 12, also with Teresa.) Chelsea mugs with her papa in next month's issue of Flaunt, a fashion magazine. The daddy's girl says she plans to attend college before embarking on a singing career. If it all works out, one day she might be able to wear as much makeup as Pop.

    One More Time
    When BRITNEY SPEARS got hitched in January, it was a quickie ceremony in Vegas that stunned her family and ended in annulment. After eight months of personal growth, Spears, 22, walked down the aisle again, on Sept. 18, in a quickie ceremony in Los Angeles that stunned her family and got hung up by a prenup. To evade paparazzi, she exchanged vows with backup dancer KEVIN FEDERLINE, 26, at what was to have been their engagement bash, a month before the planned nuptials. "I was like, 'What are we waiting for?'" Spears told PEOPLE. But when they said I do, one detail was amiss. Lawyers advised the couple, who opted for a prenup agreement and signed a marriage license, to wait a grace period after inking the prenup. They have not filed the signed license, which, Federline told PEOPLE, they'll do this week. So, Mama Spears, there's still time for intervention.