Word: fatter
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Have Jacobson's junk-food jihads worked? "Michael's ideas about diet and health were seen as way out there 20 years ago," says former FDA commissioner David Kessler. "Now they are mainstream." Translation: we may be fatter than ever, but at least we are feeling guiltier about it. Jacobson, 57, spits out new initiatives faster than you can say olestra (slapped with a gastrointestinal warning, thanks to C.S.P.I.). He dreams of fast-food outlets listing calories. "I can just see it," he sighs. "Big Mac: 560 calories, $2.19." He's urging a federally funded campaign to promote five daily...
...seem to like, who gives some people a goofy sense of hope, despite the almost universal feeling that this man will need the hardest-working aides in Washington. And the Democrats have put up a man (really, he put himself up) who has gone left and made himself a fatter target for the GOP crosshairs than Bill Clinton ever was. A guy who, despite significant brainpower and numerous accomplishments, strikes a lot of people as Clinton's Peter Lorre...
...obesity before simply tuning it all out and popping another Pringle's. Now, however, there's one more reason to listen to the seeming scolds: the danger of diabetes. According to a report published last week in the journal Diabetes Care, as a fat and happy U.S. gets fatter still, the incidence of diabetes is rising too, striking more and more people in younger and younger age groups--and threatening them with everything from blindness to amputations to heart attacks...
...says Vinod Khosla, a partner at venture-capital firm Kleiner, Perkins. "Optical-networking companies are like Levi's. They're supplying jeans and tools to miners during the Gold Rush." The amount of data traversing the Web is doubling every three months, and as these merged-media entities offer fatter and better Web services, bandwidth demand should accelerate again...
...queasiness still abounds over options and their tendency to make corporate fat cats even fatter. In Germany, where the culture places greater emphasis on making it to the top of a company than on lining your pockets once you get there, option giveaways still consume only about 5% of total corporate profits. At the German chemical company BASF, CEO Jurgen Strube collects about $300,000 worth of options a year. "In the U.S., you have CEOs who earn more than $100 million on their options," says BASF vice president Hans-Otto Brinkkotter. "We avoid that...