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...stock in the company that produces the movies...
...ride), in 2006, took in another $113 million. And since each movie was made for a thrifty $25 million, there are big profits in the franchise. The only obligation for the screenwriters going forward is to come up with a new catastrophe. What would it be this time? A stock-market crash? A Thanksgiving Day Kmart trampling? The explosion of a movie theater where the feature attraction is a Final Destination movie? Nothing so imaginative: just a race-car crash and stadium collapse with multiple, gruesome fatalities...
...Stock prices usually reflect underlying value. But stocks can also be affected by things like summer vacations among hedge fund managers, or by late-December window-dressing by mutual-fund managers who want to have the hot performers in their portfolio at year's end. Brian Belski, chief investment strategist at Oppenheimer, tells TIME's John Curran why these seasonal tea leaves are now bullish...
...Stung by the failure of a female-condom initiative it tried 10 years ago, Uganda will start by distributing only the 100,000 female condoms it has in stock in two regions. The government says it has learned its lesson from the earlier program, and will put more effort into distribution and teaching people how to use the condoms. The government plan is partly a response to demand from civil-society groups, who say Ugandan women are bearing the brunt of the AIDS epidemic. In a meeting on July 7, government officials agreed to start the program this year...
...head simmering in a pot in preparation for making an herb-infused, French-style headcheese. The rest of the hog, raised by a local veterinarian and rancher, is then broken down for a variety of dishes, including sausages, rendered lard, rillettes, pâtés, a bone stock for soup, spit-roasted tenderloin and a braised pork belly - all served the following day at what can only be called a pig feast. What is left does not even fill a small tableside bucket, Griffiths says. (See pictures: "What the World Eats, Part...