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Guidelines on girth have been the subject of a growing dispute since 1983, when the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. updated its charts on desirable weight. The poundage associated with the lowest death rates, the insurance firm found, had risen by as much as 14 Ibs. over such weights in its 1959 tables. Now Dr. Reubin Andres, clinical director of the Gerontology Research Center of the National Institute on Aging, has added more fat to the fire. Using the same data (from 4.2 million people charted by 25 insurance companies over two decades), Andres has concluded that people in their...
...Andres study not only challenges the conventional wisdom, it says that men and women of the same height should weigh roughly the same. This relaxed attitude toward weight gain does not find favor with the medical establishment. The American Heart Association has stated that it finds even the 1983 Metropolitan Life table too lenient. Obesity researchers at the National Institutes of Health say that weights 20% higher than the Metropolitan midpoints are hazardous. Says Dr. Robert F. Kushner, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Chicago: "We don't have anything to gain health-wise by allowing elderly patients...
...reputation. In May, New York City temporarily barred the firm from participating in two municipal-bond offerings, accusing Hutton of "stealing." Though the ban was lifted, it represented a loss of some $500,000 in fees and an incalculable amount of prestige. A New York state agency, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, has indefinitely prohibited Hutton from doing any of its underwriting...
DIED. John Canaday, 78, art critic and author whose gracefully expressed but frequently combative views appeared in the New York Times from 1959 to 1977; of pancreatic cancer; in New York City. He had catholic but conservative taste, and his several well-received books included the multivolume Metropolitan Seminars in Art (1958-60) and The Lives of the Painters...
Among living performers, the Three Tenors, singer Andrea Bocelli, Levine with his many Metropolitan Opera productions and the vivacious soprano Cecilia Bartoli are just a few of the leading DVD sellers. Cases in point: Levine's two-disc version of Tristan and Isoldewith the Met, featuring tenor Ben Heppner and soprano Jane Eaglen, on Deutsche Grammophon ($39.98), and Cecilia Bartoli Sings Mozart and Haydn, a two-disc set with the Concentus Musicus Wien conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, on BBC/Opus Arte...