Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...FRIDAY night and you're ready to party. You roll into the Yard with some friends only to be greeted there by a vast empty silence that sits on the Freshmen dorms like a fat man on a playful puppy. You scan some Houses; Mather, Kirkland, Quincy. Nothing. The only signs of life are from solitary souls with loud tape-decks and pre-meds scurrying through the night for warm, secret places to study...
...needed one hour and 15 minutes just to read the allegations in New Orleans last week. All told, the trial could go on for two months and entail the examination of up to 80 witnesses. Even before the proceedings began, each of the jurors was sandbagged with five fat folders, 2 in. to 3 in. thick and packed with pertinent documents. So it was with some skepticism that the six men and six women greeted Federal Prosecutor John Volz's attempt to offer them some blithe assurance. Said he: "This is not a complicated case...
...dietary guidelines, issued jointly by the departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services, are virtually identical to those offered five years ago. They urge eaters to reduce consumption of saturated fats and cholesterol and to limit intake of sugar and salt. Nutritionists and consumer groups applauded the reiteration, since the meat, dairy and sugar industries had been pushing for more relaxed standards. The recommendations stop short, however, of advocating a low-fat, high-fiber diet to protect against colon cancer, a regimen that has been endorsed by the National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society. The new guidelines...
With the afternoon light fading, the first of three babies, all girls, was lowered in a wire rescue basket down a long ladder to ecstatic applause and cheers. Miners hugged one another. Some medical experts felt that the excess fat and surplus water in the tissues of the newborn had helped them to survive for such an extended period. They also assumed that the infants, having so recently emerged from the darkness of the womb, were less subject than older children or adults to the stress of being buried alive...
...indicate that a little less than one-third of men and more than one-third of women are obese, just as they were a decade ago. "The evidence," says Editor T George Harris of American Health magazine, still "shows that we are a bunch of fat slobs who do not have activity built into our daily lives...