Word: america
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time All-American while at Duke, Kerr was also the first person to be awarded the Missouri Athletic Club Collegiate Player of the Year award and named player of the year by Soccer America, Adidas and the Atlantic...
...epidemic continues to rage, however, in South America, Eastern Europe and sub-Saharan Africa. By the year 2025, AIDS will be by far the major killer of young Africans, decreasing life expectancy to as low as 40 years in some countries and singlehandedly erasing the public health gains of the past five decades...
...North America 890 18.7% 2. Latin America 1,400 7.7% 3. Caribbean 330 22.2% 4. Sub-Saharan Africa 22,500 60.7% 5. North Africa and Middle East 210 5.0% 6. Western Europe 500 -2.0% 7. Eastern Europe and Central Asia 270 440.0% 8. South and Southeast Asia 6,700 28.8% 9. East Asia and Pacific 560 460.0% 10. Australia and New Zealand...
Granted, the statistics--like the scales--don't lie. And it doesn't take an actuary to figure out that with Krispy Kreme going public next year and planning to open hundreds of new stores, America will continue gaining weight in the 21st century. Which means more and more people can expect to hear the antifat refrains that I've become so familiar with: "You won't live as long," "Your quality of life will be diminished," "Society will reject you," "You won't be able to keep up in the protest marches." (That was just in my family...
Which isn't to say there haven't been times when being fat in America hasn't seriously bummed...