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...frills event. Contestant comes out. Contestant applies chalk. Contestant grabs bar. Contestant lifts bar. Contestant makes a happy grimace and drops bar. Contestant leaves stage. But it's not without drama, as the women try to psych each other out backstage by making their next lift heavier and heavier. Sort of like muscle poker. Except everybody's bluff is eventually called...
...your bigger-boned girls everywhere, weight is an issue among them. The winner of the 75-kg class, Colombia's Isabel Maria Urrutia, lifted the same amount as the silver and bronze medalists, but she was awarded the gold because she weighed less. She had lifted in a heavier class until recently when she went to Bulgaria to train. (Bulgaria must have lousy food; a lot of lifters go there to lose weight.) Urrutia won Colombia's first-ever Olympic gold medal in anything, which means she lost all that weight for the glory of her country. Maybe Jenny Craig...
HUPD issues each of its officers a Glock.40-caliber pistol for use while on-duty. Officers are not allowed to carry other lethal weapons, although they do carry batons and pepper spray. In the event that heavier firepower is needed, HUPD can call on other police agencies, including the Massachusetts State Police, Boston Police and the Cambridge Police Department...
...have Moby-Dick's baleful metaphysics, but sometimes fishermen work up a sort of Ahab feeling about them. They are giants, as freshwater fish go. The great muskie fisherman Len Hartman caught one weighing 67 pounds, 15 ounces in 1961 in the St. Laurence River, and the record is heavier still...
...once reserved for the Stones. Big record labels have vainly courted them for years. Their new album, All Hands on the Bad One, contains some of the best songs of their career. For all the band's exposure on MTV's 120 Minutes and MTV2, Brownstein is in even heavier rotation as a guitarist in William Shatner's backup band in the Priceline.com ads--can one imagine higher honors? And aside from the rain, it's hard to imagine a town less like London circa 1967 than Olympia...