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...missing now, when Johnny comes in, is the buzz. Everyone still likes him, but being a drug rep and having a couple of big knee operations somehow cost Johnny much of his celebrity status. He's still big and no longer sporting a limp, but not even his big, fat football ring elicits comments from the other patients anymore. Johnny's always still talking, joking and nodding, though - and the other patients still like him. There is a gift, some kind of divine favor that fills the air around him and it's not the football. Charisma, star quality...
...very long after James Watson finished his Nobel Prize-winning work on the structure of DNA in 1953, he started firing off some eyebrow-raising comments about his fellow man: that fat people don't get hired because they lack ambition; how sunlight (and darker skin) is the source of the "Latin lover" libido; what he found distasteful in the appearance of his female research collaborator, Rosalind Franklin...
...consumers have always talked healthier than they have eaten, and they have traditionally shown some resistance to the premiums they have had to pay for "healthy." And haven't snack-food companies like Pepsico proved that you can have it both ways: indulgent treats and "healthy" snacks, each commanding fat profit margins? Pepsi's Frito Lay North America division had 24% operating margins last year, easily exceeding Danone's 14% ops margins on fresh dairy products...
...IOSH). The institute sponsored this year's competition to show that safety inspectors are not the anti-conkers killjoys they have been presented as in the British press in recent years and that they, in fact, encourage teachers to keep conkers in schools. "Otherwise [kids] are going to be fat and lazy and horrible," she says...
...Livesey is also working on a study of the French province of Languedoc, which he said is a “fat book which won’t have as much of a readership.” The work will focus on the participation of peasants in transforming modernization...