SHORT TAKES : Leno Book to Help AIDS Project

NEW YORK — Comic Jay Leno is using humor to fight AIDS, turning over all profits from his latest book on funny newspaper headlines to the battle against the disease.

Profits from “More Headlines” will go to the Samuel Jare Kushnick Foundation, which supports pediatric AIDS programs and immunology research.

The foundation is named for Leno’s manager’s 3-year-old son, who died after contracting AIDS from a blood transfusion.

The book is a sequel to Leno’s “Headlines,” which sold 250,000 copies. It consists of “real but ridiculous samplings from America’s newspapers.”

Two samples: “Man, Shot Twice in Head, Gets Mad!” and “Sperm-Donor Project May Boost Chicken Industry.”