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...Disney full-animated feature is the most profitable franchise in movies, maybe in the entire entertainment industry. The pressure to keep producing the tiniest variations on a winning formula must be severe. So it was brave for the Disney artists to try tiptoeing away from what worked. Pocahontas had soaring melodies to match its do-gooding intentions; The Hunchback of Notre Dame came within two deaths and three cute gargoyles of being the first grownup singing-cartoon romantic tragedy. But these two movies also had an almost toxic serioso content. At times they got so solemn they could have been...
BETTER WITH BREAST MILK Breast-fed babies are about half as likely to develop ear infections or diarrhea as those on formula. A mix of both also confers protection, but less...
WASHINGTON: As the U.S. applies Jesse Helms? formula to squaring its bill with the U.N., Congress is telling the international organization to cut out the fat before it cuts the check. Under a broad foreign affairs bill, arrears will be paid out over a three-year period, but only if the U.N. moves to cut its budget and staff by 1,000 workers. The U.N. must also agree to accept $819 million as full payment even though the organization contends the U.S. owes $1.3 billion. Barring snags, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is expected to approve the legislation today...
PREEMIE PROBLEMS Very premature babies fed intravenously with calcium gluconate--a life-saving formula--may wind up with impaired mental development. It contains aluminum, which could be bad for babies' brains...
...Crimson relied on a simple, effective formula all season, dispatching worse teams and sticking with the likes of UConn to impress on the national level...