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Normally, only two sailers compete in each division. However, with the winds "howling" the Crimson needed a heavier crew. On such occasions, Chai replaces Garfield...
Tobacco companies have heavier artillery when it comes to challenging the EPA's 1993 report that labeled environmental tobacco smoke, or ETS, a carcinogen. They charge that the report -- a review of 30 epidemiological, animal and laboratory studies conducted during the past two decades -- is fundamentally flawed. The Congressional Research Service and some independent scientists have also criticized the report...
...consumption in the U.S. continues to fall -- down to 34% of daily calories in 1990 from 42% in the mid-1960s. But Americans are eating more rather than fewer calories, and they grow heavier every year...
Other manly traits, of the noxious-slob variety (emotional inaccessibility, sexual aggression, a lack of fastidiousness about lifting the seat) are ascribed to fraternity boys, the Senate Judiciary Committee and (guilt by association) males in general. People come in two models: Women (good, nice) and Men (the heavier, hairier life form...
...Lean means long-lived. A 27-year study of 19,297 Harvard graduates revealed that men who weighed 20% less than average for their height and age had the lowest rate of death among the weight classifications surveyed. By contrast, for those men 20% heavier than average, the risk of dying from cardiovascular disease was 2.5 times that of men closer to their desirable weight...