Word: overweightness
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...little warmth and humor never hurts either. Bowdoin requires a second, shorter essay on an influential teacher. Most students opt for a boiler-plate hymn to the hardest teacher in school. But a rare description of a teacher who "was big, but not overweight ... like you could trust her to provide you with bread and beef through the winter" got the committee laughing. And the essay's touching conclusion - "she taught me how to improve from a mistake and still like myself" - sent them straight for the admit stamp. Otherwise, the student's B record would not have...
...conduct, mostly bad, of its elected leaders. This best-selling saga started with Washington, D.C. and continued with Burr (1973), 1876 (1976), Lincoln (1984), Empire (1987) and Hollywood (1990). The Golden Age wraps up the long story and includes a flash-forward to earlier this year, when Peter Sanford, overweight and 77, visits the Italian villa of his old friend Gore Vidal to tape a television program of shared musings under the direction of a young man named A.B. Decker, a descendant of Aaron Burr...
...house that becomes the national stage for ten "Big Diet" contestants. And you thought "Survivor" was sketch! For "Big Diet," two producers have put together the most reprehensible premise for a television show in the history of the world - and it begins, intriguingly enough, with ten hapless overweight contestants. The creators will gleefully stuff these fatties into their booby-trapped lair and monitor their every move until the weekly climax where the contestant who has lost the least weight is ceremoniously booted from the house. The "Big Dieter" who loses the most weight wins that weight in gold. But alas...
...conduct, mostly bad, of its elected leaders. This best-selling saga started with "Washington, D.C." and continued with "Burr" (1973), "1876" (1976), "Lincoln" (1984), "Empire" (1987) and "Hollywood" (1990). "The Golden Age" wraps up the long story and includes a flash-forward to earlier this year, when Peter Sanford, overweight and 77, visits the Italian villa of his old friend Gore Vidal to tape a television program of shared musings under the direction of a young man named A. B. Decker, a descendant of Aaron Burr...
...brainer. In the same period in which the diabetes numbers have been climbing, so have the numbers on many people's scales. In 1991 just 12% of the U.S. population was considered obese; by 1998 it was 20%. Meanwhile, the share of people considered to be at least "overweight" climbed from 44% to 54%. All the added fat appears to make the body steadily less responsive to sugar-processing insulin, causing the pancreas to compensate by producing more and more of that essential hormone. Ultimately the body becomes so unresponsive that injected insulin supplements or other medication may become necessary...