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...that Everest is no longer an epochal achievement and that the conga lines of climbers waiting for a shot at the summit are degrading a once pristine environment. In Hillary's day, teams of top climbers were handpicked by prestigious bodies such as the Royal Geographical Society. Today, an overweight globe-trotter with more money than experience and a little-known blind guy have equal access. The door to Everest's slopes has been blown wide open, and some critics speak of the death of great adventures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Hillary and Tenzing's Bootprints | 5/12/2003 | See Source »

...it’s fair to assume that associating a fattening cookie with a people who are stereotyped as being abnormally overweight is unfair, but at least it’s better than sticking in the term “Lite.” For starters, “lite” is a non-word. Were the Girl Scout pooh-bahs searching so hard for a term that didn’t include “light” that they stumbled upon something that usually implies low-cal anyway...

Author: By Travis R. Kavulla, | Title: A Cookie, By Jingo | 5/7/2003 | See Source »

...which the Samoa Islands are known. After all, if Detroit was famous for a fattening food that tasted like smog or whatever else Detroit is famous for, would we refrain from calling it a “Detroit” because the city’s average resident is overweight? I think...

Author: By Travis R. Kavulla, | Title: A Cookie, By Jingo | 5/7/2003 | See Source »

...women--think "before" not "after"--slogging through their workouts. What's also different about Curves--and why its business model is even more intriguing--is that it ignores the received wisdom about luxury-obsessed boomers. Curves' gyms are small, simple workout joints, often in strip malls, that cater to overweight women who have never worked out. They offer only one service: a tightly structured, 30-min. circuit-training workout on eight to 12 exercise machines. A recorded voice tells you when to move to the next machine. Most locations are open just seven hours a day, and there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Franchising: A Slim Gym's Fat Success | 5/5/2003 | See Source »

Time since the verdict was reduced to a mere $1.2 million by the judge in light of the fact that Smith’s fatal heart attack may have been caused in part by the fact that he was 54 years-old, overweight, a long-time smoker who ate a poor diet, got little exercise, had diabetes as well as high cholesterol, and considered his job highly stressful...

Author: By P.l. Hopkins, | Title: Minutes! | 5/1/2003 | See Source »

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