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QUALITY Great, but paper felt thin; heavier paper costs 5˘ more a print...
...certain sense of pride accompanies a career that peaks in the National Football League and begins in the Ivy League—as opposed to “big-time college football,” says Birk, where “the linemen are probably 20 or 30 pounds heavier, and the receivers and running backs are probably two or three tenths of a second faster...
Fixating on the latest death counts from the CDC may get you a few chuckles and some edgy ads. But that doesn't change the facts that Americans are growing heavier and that obesity-related diseases like Type 2 diabetes are on the rise. Some of the more responsible leaders of the food industry are trying to do something about obesity in the U.S., and they will tell you--but only if you don't name names--that campaigns that try to dismiss the problem as hype are doing them more harm than good. --With reporting by Coco Masters...
...people charted by 25 insurance companies over two decades), Andres has concluded that people in their 20s should weigh less than Metropolitan Life indicates, 40-year-olds should weigh about the same, but people in their 50s and 60s can afford to be anywhere from 4 to 37 Ibs. heavier. Andres, a gerontologist who has been studying the effect of weight gain on aging for more than five years, feels that after the age of 20, almost any normally lean person can put on about a pound a year...
...addition to enduring military training, parade drill and required athletics, cadets carry a heavier than normal college course load that is long on engineering and math. Sleep, not surprisingly, is regarded as a luxury. To stay awake in class, cadets who begin dozing off in their seats are permitted to stand up by their desks. After lunch, entire classes are sometimes on their feet by the final bell...