Word: overweightness
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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
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...