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Americans are certainly primed to respond. The U.S. is one of the fattest countries on earth, and at the same time the most obsessed with slimness. Some 58 million citizens, nearly a fourth of the nation's population, are clinically obese--at least 20% above their ideal body weight. For a 5-ft. 3-in. woman, that's 162 lbs. or more. Millions more are significantly overweight. All told, Americans are carrying around tons of excess fat, and we are desperate to lose...
Kerri Strug's torn ligament at the Olympics may be the cloud with the fattest silver lining ever. The gutsy gymnast isn't letting her pint-size voice stop her from hitting the big time. Instead of touring with the rest of her team, she's working on two books, a TV-movie deal, a cameo on Beverly Hills, 90210, a tour with the Ice Capades, and maybe even a gymnastics exhibition. Oh, and college...
...when the postmortems on her health-care plan suggested that her high-handed style hastened its demise. Newt Gingrich is not about to make the same mistake. He has known for months that his whole grand scheme to balance the budget depends on reinventing Medicare, one of the biggest, fattest, most popular and most expensive pieces of the Federal Government. So back in the spring Gingrich began plotting his moves, all the while bearing in mind that when you are forced to deliver bad news, you should do it very, very carefully...
Brokers usually pass the low-cost shares only to clients who generate the fattest commissions. Foley, a stock-market neophyte with a small account, does not fit that profile. "Foley may just be lucky in the stock market," comments Ellen Miller, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, a watchdog group. "But it raises the question, Did he get a special deal, and why do people want to be so especially nice to members of Congress...
...September 1987, Sulzberger recalls, just before he became deputy publisher, he held in his hands the fattest paper in New York Times history; a few weeks later, after the stock market crashed 500 points, advertising fell, and the paper began to shrink. "Suddenly we were no longer talking about the Grand Plan but about how to control the descent," he says. Spending was frozen on the business side and buyouts were offered. But the Times never stopped hiring reporters, because "somewhere in there is an assistant managing editor in 20 years...