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...Cocoon, the sci-fi fantasy that has become one of the top summer box-office hits. Offscreen, however, veteran Actor Don Ameche, 77, seems already to have found his own fountain of youth. He reports he performed the movie's swan dives and jackknives in "all but a fraction of a shot." His secret: "a lot of hard work," including a daily five-mile walk and a 20-to-25-minute aerobics workout most mornings. For 35 years he has limited himself to a one-meal-a-day diet. Ameche would rather spend more time with his six children, eleven...
...flooding was only the latest cruel irony of the severe famine that has plagued Africa. While Western donors have shipped hundreds of thousands of tons of food into the region, only a fraction has found its way to those in need. Civil wars and woefully inadequate transportation systems have prevented the aid from reaching the hungry. Without increased shipments to the interior, says Salim Lone, a spokesman for the United Nations Office for Emergency Operations in Africa, "we fear that 100,000 Sudanese will die in the next three months...
Classical-music lovers seem to agree. DVDs aren't yet as big a factor as classical CDs, which themselves represent only 3% of the overall recorded-music market; but allowing for the fact that they are a fraction of a sliver, DVDs are gaining fast and showing great potential. "They've put a jump start in the aspect of the business that needed it," says Christopher Roberts, president of Universal Classics and Jazz International...
...cancellation of flavors such as Bovinity Divinity and One Sweet Whirled, scoopers say they have encountered only a few Harvard students missing chocolate chip scoops this year. “Maybe I’d be more upset if I didn’t have to spend a fraction of my college tuition to pay for it,” says Matthew R. Schindel...
Though the University’s stake in Sinopec is just a fraction of the estimated $4.4 million in PetroChina stock that Harvard held prior to Monday’s divestment decision, Bhatnagar said “this has never been about the amount of money...