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...HPFA for aligning certain constellations - as when Sophia Loren, still statuesque and preternaturally well-preserved at 75, presented the Foreign Film award to Austria's Michael Haneke, the current dean of daunting drama, for The White Ribbon. The two shook hands, and the glamour and brains of a half-century of European cinema stood together. Haneke, usually dour, but now smiling, even thanked his wife and said, "I love you." (See pictures of a previous Golden Globes...
...only 2% had ever discussed it with teenage patients or their parents. But it appears that many young people are finding out about the activity on their own - potentially without being made aware of the dangers. In a study in the journal Injury Prevention published last February, nearly half of all students at eight schools in Texas said they knew someone who had participated in the choking game. (See how to prevent illness...
Santander would rather be profitable than interesting. Santander's U.K. profits for the first half of 2009 were up 33% from the year before, if you don't count acquisitions, and almost 63% if you do. It remains to be seen if Santander can work similar magic at Sovereign. Inciarte says cost-to-income at the U.S. bank has already fallen from 65% to 57%, but that getting down to 40% "will take us quite a while." (See pictures of the Federal Reserve...
...World Food Program targets schoolchildren with Food Force, which asks players to coordinate an emergency response during a food shortage. The New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has teamed up with Games for Change to produce a game to complement his recent book, Half the Sky, which lays out a plan to fight global poverty. Players on social networks will take real-world actions - making microcredit loans, signing petitions - to advance. "We think it's a chance to reach beyond the choir," says Kristof...
...from 25% to less than 1%. In Pakistan, the site of repeated attacks, support for al-Qaeda fell from 25% in 2008 to 9% the next year. In 2007, the Pew Research Center found that in Pakistan, Lebanon, Indonesia and Bangladesh, support for terrorism had dropped by at least half since...