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...rump of a van with the the truncated front end of a car. Known in automotive circles as a minivan, it was designed for people who want something smaller than a van make and bigger than a station wagon. Though comparatively squat nomads (more than a foot less in height than most vans) , it can carry a load of 1,200 lbs., only 100 lbs. less than standard models. If used to cart people, the minivan seats seven, one more than a typical station wagon...
...Insurance Co., women who are 5 ft. 2 in. and tip the scales at 140 could consider their weights to be right on target, as could 180-lb. men who measure 5 ft. 10 in. For the first time since 1959, the giant insurance company revised its widely used height-weight guidelines, moving them upward by as much as ten to 15 lbs. in the case of short men and women. The news brought sighs of relief from gourmands but cries of alarm from some doctors, who fear that overweight Americans will worry less about trimming down...
...behemoth, so wide that it cannot readily fit into the standard C-141 military transport plane; it has to be partially disassembled. Its 5½-in.-thick armor adds some protection, but on the battlefield, critics charge, the vehicle would be a death trap. Its width and excessive height (10 ft.) offer an inviting target to enemy gunners. At times it even has to be a stationary target: the Bradley must come to a complete stop to fire its antitank missile. Its 25-mm gun also has a problem: it is said to be highly inaccurate...
Only later, as he grew, or failed to grow, did Moore realize that he had another problem. "I felt very humiliated about my height when I was a child. Then, when I became interested in what can only be described as the opposite sex, I felt that being small was a disadvantage. I felt unworthy of anything, a little runt with a twisted foot." His was not a loving home, and his parents, both of whom were also 5 ft. 2 in., seemed to have two basic emotions, fear and anxiety. "They huddled together for some sort of comfort...
Moore's height, or lack of it, has not hampered his relations with, in his words, what can only be described as the opposite sex. He is, in two words, girl crazy. He enjoys sex immensely and, given an opportunity, talks about it endlessly, with innocent self-absorption, as if he were describing the movements of the stars and planets. In a recent Playboy interview, almost the entire conversation is devoted to that one subject, and he recounts his love life, graphically and all too vividly, without inhibitions or constraints. "I have been talking about those things for years...