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...will go to the Memorial Fund for Disaster Relief, a charity for victims of catastrophes around the world. Parker, whose pens have been used to sign the arms-control treaties, is offering a range of instruments from a humble ball-point for $30 to a top-of-the-line fountain pen for $300. Each carries an emblem forged from the melted-down missiles...
Their names are Smudge, Sparky, Frankie and Jinx. That should give the viewer a fair indication of the kind of musical presented here. The very first song, "Three Coins in a Fountain," confirms one's every suspicion. All around, eyes glaze with nostalgia as, almost without pause, the quartet swings into "Gotta be This or That...
...motivate the young. A history teacher at East St. Louis' Martin Luther King Jr. High School, he notes, has 110 students in four classes, and only 26 books. Every year, says a teacher in a nearby school, "there's one more toilet that doesn't flush, one more drinking fountain that doesn't work, one more classroom without texts...
...researchers are a long way from putting the Fountain of Youth in a jar, and there is no rigorous scientific evidence to support the sweeping claims made by the manufacturers of scores of cosmetics sold over the counter. They contain some of the same ingredients as prescription drugs, but in much lower concentrations...
HEALTH Don't look for the Fountain of Youth...