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...teen film isn't a big hit, it can make money. This summer's Can't Hardly Wait (with Hewitt) grossed a tepid $25 million, but since it cost only around $10 million, everyone got to see some green. Everyone but the actors. "The teen genre is a godsend to studios, because they can use a bunch of young people in the place of one $20 million star," says Cary Woods, who produced Scream. "And the kids don't get gross percentages, so the studios get nice profits." It's not as if these kids were cobbling Nikes in China...
...which can be a godsend for anxious new parents. "We've got results already," says Luis Teijeiro, a 38-year-old Miami resident who began massaging his 11-week-old daughter Alissa in June. "Before, her fist was always clenched so tight she was like a little boxer." Now when Alissa wakes up crying in the middle of the night, he massages her. Within minutes, she falls back to sleep...
...million American men estimated to suffer impotence at some point in their lives, the pill is a godsend, as it should be for Pfizer: analysts estimate Viagra's sales could reach $500 million by 2003. Pfizer's stock, meanwhile, was, um, rising slowly on the news, reaching 95 7/16 at midday...
...nature's own antidepressant--almost as potent as the prescription drug Prozac but without Prozac's troubling side effects. St. John's wort may not work for everyone, acknowledges Bloomfield, a psychiatrist in Del Mar, Calif. "But to those for whom it does work, it's like a godsend...
...team that consistently has had trouble stringing hits together, the second inning explosion was a godsend...