Word: fatted
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Dietary components included high consumption levels of legumes, fruits, other vegetables, and cereals; low consumption levels of dairy products and meat products; a high proportion of monounsaturated fat intake (such as olive oil) relative to saturated fat; and moderate alcohol consumption (see graphic...
There are countless examples of the underdogs winning out over fat cats who were overconfident and lazy, who just didn't work as hard. Take the case of Buster Douglas, Jr., who beat a seemingly indomitable but actually flabby and pariah-surrounded Mike Tyson one glorious night in Japan five years ago. Buster then was bitten by the overconfidence bug that bit Tyson, and was knocked silly by Evander Holyfield. (Buster has since ballooned to a 400-pound man with dread locks. "I always hated fighting," he says...
...have something to do with Hox genes. But what? To find out, developmental biologist Sean Carroll's lab on the University of Wisconsin's Madison campus has begun importing tiny velvet worms that inhabit rotting logs in the dry forests of Australia. Blowing bubbles of spittle and waving their fat legs in the air, they look, he marvels, virtually identical to their Cambrian cousin Aysheaia, whose evocative portrait appears in the pages of the Burgess Shale. Soon Carroll hopes to answer a pivotal question: Is the genetic tool kit needed to construct a velvet worm smaller than...
...Democrat as long as he has. He hints at the answer: "As fate had it, I had accumulated some small amount of influence in the ongoing Democratic dialogue. That was not something to squander." The result is a book that reads like a cynical proposal to land a big fat political consulting contract for the '96 election--and any candidate who heeds his words will...
...that creating absolute havoc is justified. Air, rail and ground transport have ground to a halt. Schools, hospitals, post offices and sanitation are also shut down. Millions of Parisians have had to walk to work. The French are very unrealistic about their social service system. Cutting back on the fat in public sector jobs is the only way to reduce the deficit, which is required under the Maastricht Treaty. The striking workers are trying to spook the government into finding another solution. The problem is there is no other solution...