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Imagine the scene: A vastly overweight, mentally disabled, middle-aged man howls unintelligibly into a microphone while playing the same few notes again and again on a keyboard; a crowd of young college students drunkenly catcall and jeer at the performer. Willis, of course, seems entirely unaware that he is being jeered at, and mistakes the sarcastic applause for genuine adulation...

Author: By D. ROBERT Okada and Z. SAMUEL Podolsky, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: The Wesley Willis Question | 9/28/2001 | See Source »

They’d chat about Allen and Dylan (Jenkins’ overweight housecats suffering from feline leukemia), possible home improvements or Cable’s three children...

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Local Man Died On Flight Eleven | 9/20/2001 | See Source »

...study participants were overweight; ranged in age from 25 to 85; and included African Americans, Hispanic Americans and other ethnic groups that are, for reasons that remain unclear, particularly susceptible to developing diabetes. In addition, all the test subjects had trouble metabolizing glucose. Yet the lifestyle changes were clearly beneficial in each of these categories, with those over 60 showing the most improvement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Step or Two Against Diabetes | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

...elderly and the young are especially vulnerable to heat stress. So are folks who are overweight or suffer from heart disease. Whatever you do, don't ignore the signs of heat stress in yourself or those around you. When the thermometer's rising, everyone's at risk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death By 100 Degrees | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

...daughter in American Beauty, and Johansson, who has been playing wise children for almost half her life (Manny & Lo, The Horse Whisperer). "Enid is an original," says Birch, now 19. "Timeless." So is the actress's incarnation. She gives Enid the stooped posture and scowl of an overweight spinster; she's a prematurely old soul. Johansson, now 16, is nifty as Enid's more passive ally. "Rebecca's head is screwed on right," Johansson notes, "but Enid's is sort of floating around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Ghost of a Chance | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

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