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...Crusaders return none of their offensive linemen from last year’s matchup with Harvard. The corps is composed of two sophomores and three juniors, with the two underclassmen both lined up left of the center. What the quintet lacks in experience is offset by its collective girth. Averaging just under 287 lbs.—right tackle Lee Chase alone weighs 309 lbs.—the five have had little difficulty opening holes for Silva and Akande, who are averaging a combined 144 yards rushing per game after two weeks...
...blood pressure? The issue came up last week when a report published in the Journal of the American Medical Association showed, for the first time, that blood-pressure rates among children and teens across the U.S. have inched up over the past 15 years--a consequence of their growing girth. "The increase was seen in boys and girls, among whites, African Americans and Mexican Americans," says Paul Muntner, an epidemiologist at Tulane University in New Orleans and the study's lead author. "As these children become adults, they're more likely to develop high blood pressure, heart disease and stroke...
...would think that any development--fad or not--that takes an inch or two off our collective girth would be well received. "Other countries are laughing at us," says Harry Balzer, vice president at NPD Group, a market-research firm that studies eating patterns in the U.S. Those slim, wine-drinking, chain-smoking Europeans chuckle at our diet and health obsessiveness, since we continue to overeat. Yet there are signs that carb counting may be working. In its latest annual report, NPD found that after six consecutive years of weight gain, the number of overweight adult Americans fell 1 percentage...
...feds do, though. They know Massino's influence is as big as his girth. For five years, they have painstakingly constructed a RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) case against Massino. A windowless room in the FBI's lower-Manhattan office block is filled to the ceiling with dusty files. Here, agents from the Bonanno squad (known in the gumshoe world as C-10) pore over surveillance photos, audio recordings and bank records detailing Massino's alleged three-decade career in crime...
...German-American humorist: the phrase smacks of oxymoronality. The American expected to laugh at German-Americans (when he wasn't afraid of them), primed as he was with images of oom-pah-pah bands, clinking beer steins and Wagnerian sopranos of ample girth. It happened that Ted's father was co-owner of the Kalmbach and Geisel Brewery (later, and prudently, changed to the Liberty Brewing Company) in Springfield, Mass., and that his mother's measurements were an imposing six ft. and 200 lb. Further, the family names could have come from any ethnic vaudeville sketch of the period: Schmaelzle...