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2A WEDNESDAY, JAY 1. Iy97 I 1 jllT Hfl71t I FORT HURON, MICHIGAN 2A Faces Places 1 a I mm t- 17 Ml- II Rider spins his wheels for charity Mike Ziegler put his pedals to the pavement earlier this fall to help make a wish or two of an ailing child come true. Mike, of Lexington, rode in the ninth annual Wish-A-Mile (WAM) fe; i I Tne Associated Press HELPING SANTA: Russian President Boris Yeltsin buys a present for his grandson Tuesday from Tatyana Mosolova, manager of a Moscow toy shop. Russians celebrate the Orthodox Christmas on Jan. 6, and Russian children receive gifts on New Year's Eve.

NAMES FACES Bill Cosby isn't slow to defend turtle show LOS ANGELES Bill Cosby says an animal rights group wrongly shelled a Cosby episode depicting a turtle accidentally burned in a pile of leaves. Cosby was among the TV shows given "Foe-Paw" awards recently from Arc of Trust. Cosby said the turtle was not harmed in real life and survived in the episode. Drew Barrymore finds new film a Scream NEW YORK Drew Bar-rymore's new movies are a thriller and a musical. Guess which one tested her vocal cords.

It wasn't the musical. Woody Allen's Everyone Says I Love You. Barrymore was one of the few stars whose voice was dubbed. "I understood that this character, when she sang, had to have a husky, femme fatale kind of projection, which believe me, I don't have," the 21 -year-old actress said. "I was perfectly OK with it." She also didn't mind acting out the title of the Wes Craven thriller, Scream.

Comedian can't seem to understand appeal LOS ANGELES With lines like "Bite me, doughboy" and a costume of huge fake eyelashes. Trw Associated Press BOOMING NEW YEAR: A reveler who apparently ignored government limits on holiday fireworks is wheeled into Philippine General Hospital with a seriously injured left hand. He was one of several people hurt by fireworks today. World greets 1997 with pomp, prayer HAPPY BIRTHDAY BORN JAN. 1 Author J.O.

Salinger is 78. Actor Frank Langella is 57. Singer Country Joe McDonald is 55. Writer-comedian Don Novello is 54. Rapper Grandmaster Flash is 39.

electric-blue eye shadow and garish clothes, Kathy Kinney is hard to miss on The Drew Carey Show. It wasn't always that way. The actress worked as a temporary secretary for nine years to make ends meet. "I think I'm still a little baffled as to why people think I'm funny. I used to be afraid that if I figured it out, NEWS YOU CAN USE YOUR HEALTH to fall asleep and sleeping an average of only six hours a night.

Half the participants underwent 16 weeks of aerobics, each week consisting of two hourlong, low-impact classes at a YMCA and two 40-minute sessions of brisk walking or stationary cycling at home. The other half did nothing. At the end of the study, the subjects who exercised reported that they fell asleep about 15 minutes faster and slept about 45 minutes longer than before. Those who did not exercise no change. In the other study, people with osteoarthritis who walked briskly Studies back merits of exercise I'd lose it.

Now. I don't worry about it. Ms. Kinney said. TV movie on Wallace protested by family MONTGOMERY, Ala.

George Wallace's friends and family are complaining that the script for a TV movie about the former governor portrays him as a foul-mouthed, suicidal man. "They make him out to be some backwoods ignorant Southerner, and I resent Hollywood always portraying Southerners that way," said the former governor's son, George Wallace Jr. The script is for a Turner Network Television movie, with Gary Sinise playing Gov. Wallace. for older folks or worked out with weights for (three hourlong sessions a week could climb stairs, get out of cars and perform other activities more easily and with less pain.

The 18-month study involved 349 people. "It probably doesn't matter what you do as along as you do it," said the lead researcher, Dr. Walter H. Ettinger Jr. of Bowman Gray School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, N.C.

"We've got to figure out how you get people active and how you keep them active." Exercise already is generally recommended as a treatment for osteoarthritis by the Arthritis Foundation and the American College of Rheumatology. CARPET -VINYL 'HARDWOOD CERAMIC tffgt tpr Pgr fffff in ft next ftw tttrt' CALL TODAY 967-5004 or 1-600-654-0295 300 Bicycle Tour. The two-day event benefits the Make-A-Wish Foundation, which fulfills the dreams of children with life-threatening illnesses. The 200-mile bicycle challenge started at dawn from Camp Dearborn in Milford and traveled to MARY LC'J CREAMER HELLO MARY LOU Frankenmuth and back. The 1996 WAM 300 Bicycle Tour raised more than SI 25,000 for Make-A-Wish.

To participate, each of the 155 riders personally raised a minimum of $300 in pledges. More than 85 of the money raised by the bicycle tour ill go toward granting wishes, said Nanette Trimpe, executive director of the foundation. "We really appreciate the efforts put forth by the riders and volunteers," she said. "Thanks to their dedication and support we ill continue to make dreams come realities for our special children." The Make-A-Wish Foundation of Michigan grants wishes to children ages 2 XA to 1 7. For information about the ride, call (800) 622-9474.

Call Make-A-Wish at (800) 622-WISH. STAR EMPLOYEE: Congratulations to Reta Taylor, the Faith Medical Care Center employee of the month for November. Reta has worked at Faith for two years in the laundry department. When Reta isn't working, she enjoys spending time with her 12 grandchildren as well as working crossword puzzles. Although Reta says she thoroughly enjoys her job, she thinks retirement may eventually find her going west, to Montana.

Have an item for Mary Lou? Address it to "Hello, Mary Lou, "P.O. Box 5009, Port Huron. 48061-5009. Web Me PC Web Page Design Web Site Hosting E-Mail: lnfototeachmepc.com Web Site: www.teachmepc.com i -7 The Associated Press As the world spun into 1997, people around the globe hailed the passage of time with rites old and new, from the solemnity of Mass at Mother Teresa's nunnery in India to revelry on the beach at Rio. This new year also was a rehearsal of sorts for the millennium, with Pope John Paul II himself talking about throwing a big party three years from now.

Police around the world banned celebratory firearms, but many people went ahead and started the new year off with a bang. In the Philippines, officials threatened to arrest anyone who set off firecrackers with more than a third of a teaspoon of explosives per stick. In public spaces such as Madrid's Puerta del Sol, hordes gathered to count down the year's final seconds. Like the celebration in New York's Times Square, the scene in Madrid is broadcast nationwide into Spanish homes. In Sweden, last-minute buyers mobbed the state liquor store at the ski town of Salen, 200 miles northwest of Stockholm.

"Nine hundred people ahead of me! It's outrageous," one customer said. For many of the world's workers, the arrival of Jan. 1 on a Wednesday was just right in the middle of the week. With nine days off, about 1 million Japanese were traveling abroad to celebrate the passing of the Year of the Rat and the arrival of the Year of the Ox, the second in the 12-year cycle of the Asian zodiac. -rim i The Associated Press PARTY: A French broker tries to get a one more trade while his colleagues in the Paris stock exchange drape him in New Year's confetti.

As party-goers shivered in the Northern Hemisphere, people in Rio de Janeiro donned white outfits to go to the beach with flowers and other offerings for Iemanja, an Afro-Brazilian water goddess. In Rome, the pope called on the city to get ready for 2000, when the capital is expected to host millions of people for Holy Year and millennium celebrations. In Calcutta, India, Mother Teresa attended a New Year's Mass that was held four hours before midnight Tuesday to make it easier on the 86-year-old nun, who is recovering from heart surgery. The Associated Press CHICAGO A little exercise can help older people sleep better and relieve their arthritis, researchers reported Tuesday. The two studies do more than confirm conventional wisdom they suggest a low-cost means of cutting the nation's health expenditures.

Dr. David M. Buchner of the University of Washington said in an accompanying editorial. The studies were published in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association. One study, led by researchers at Stanford University, involved 43-sedentary, healthy adults 50 to 76 years old with mild to moderate sleep problems, such as taking longer than 25 minutes on average 11 I ICt 11132 4af aasfil If mj 1 1 'it I'liil' 1-1 -'1 I 1 Border 1U Cat An JAN.

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