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Bungee jumping is based on an age-old ritual practiced by the "land divers" of Pentecost Island in the South Pacific archipelago of Vanuatu. Every spring villagers there collect liana vines and wind them into long cords. Young men then scale high wooden towers, lash the vines around their ankles and jump. A successful leap is considered a demonstration of courage -- and a harbinger of a plentiful yam harvest...
...past year, Daisy has so far made $70 million at the box office, an extraordinary sum for a movie without sex, violence or raunchy humor. Cronyn has not swept the field as his wife has this year, but he has won extravagant praise for his role in Age-Old Friends, a touching TV drama set in a nursing home...
...movie production manager. Tandy, 44, who was given her mother's last name as her first name, went into the family business: she is an actress, and a good one. Through some miracle of casting she was even given the part of her father's daughter in Age-Old Friends...
...will increase the number of labs being inspected nationwide from 12,000 to 300,000. But the task is enormous, and many labs may still escape the enhanced surveillance. So anyone troubled by the results of a cholesterol test or other blood exam might be smart to follow that age-old advice applying to medicine in general: get a second opinion...
Although Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence has made tenuring more faculty from within Harvard a primary goal, his efforts have yet to make a dent in the age-old system...