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...exotic of the new beefs is zebu, an unfortunate name that suggests the animal is at least part zebra and might summon images of black-and-white- striped steaks. Instead, this haughty-looking animal is a variety of humpbacked cattle native to India and Brazil that is crossbred with fatter and more flavorful bovine strains. Zebu breeding stock is raised by Liborio Hinojosa of H&H Meat Products in Mercedes, Texas, and is sold to ranchers from Florida and California. Zebu, which is now being tested for fat and calorie count at Texas A&M University, was the least acceptable...
Anorexics characteristically have a distorted perception of their body size according to experts. "Anorexics I've talked with--they weigh half of what I weigh, and they can't tell who is fatter," says Sheila Reindl, a counselor at the Bureau of Study Counsel and co-director of an EPO group...
Then again, Barbie's active ways may be misleading. For the situation among children is particularly bleak. American youth has got fatter than it was in the '60s, according to HHS tests. Young people spend an average of 13 hours a week in sports or other exercise. They spend three to four times that watching TV and playing video games. Schoolchildren's scores are now declining for strength, power, speed, agility and cardiovascular fitness. The Amateur Athletic Union reports that 36% of youngsters meet its standards for push-ups, high jumps, long jumps, endurance runs and sprints. Just...
However handsomely Presser paid his ghost employees, the ample (300 lb.) Jackie drew a far fatter salary. An annual review of the union's books by the dissident Teamsters for a Democratic Union revealed that Presser paid himself $755,474 last year. That is roughly $185,000 more than the 1984 salary of Chrysler Chief Lee Iacocca, and about ten times the salary of Owen Bieber, head of the United Auto Workers. The T.D.U. says 74 other Teamsters officials made more than $100,000 last year...
Union officials concede privately that they expect a tough ratification fight. Many senior union members, who are relatively safe from layoffs, are likely to vote against the agreement because it did not get them fatter paychecks. Warned David Lankford, 37, a sweeper with 18 years seniority at the Clark Avenue Cadillac plant: "I want a raise. I'd vote down anything less than getting back our 3% a year." Rallying under the slogan "restore and more in '84," workers like Lankford have maintained that the union should not only recoup concessions made in its 1982 contract with...