Word: overweightness
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...Overweight women have lower incomes, less schooling, and are less likely to be married, a Harvard researcher reports in today's New England Journal of Medicine...
...LEADING BRITISH POETS appeared together on a platform at Hull University. One was Ted Hughes, the widower of Sylvia Plath: intense, leather- jacketed, trailing a romantic aura. The other was Philip Larkin, an overweight, bald, bespectacled and partly deaf figure in a dark suit who later described himself as providing the "sophisticated, insincere, effete, and gold-watch-chained alternative...
...your love handles. Developed by New Jersey- based Hoffmann-La Roche, orlistat (chemical name: tetrahydrolipstati n) shows promise, but its effects are strictly limited and still not completely understood. Preliminary studies suggest that when taken in conjunction with a moderate diet, it can reduce fat uptake in seriously overweight patients up to 270 calories a day -- the equivalent of about one scoop of Haagen-Dazs. The drug is not a panacea. Nor is it anything anybody should consider swallowing just to look better in a bikini...
...Paley have included every one of the group's Top 40 hits, along with 40 previously unreleased tracks and assorted radio spots. The collection offers evidence of Brian's emotional delicacy and creative resiliency, from the unreleased H.E.L.P. Is on the Way, with its self-mocking references to being overweight ("doughy lumps, stomach pumps, enemas too"), to the soup-deep sorrow of 'Til I Die. It also gives fair play to Carl Wilson's gifts as a writer and lead guitarist, and to the freewheeling lyricism of a third brother, the late Dennis Wilson...
...reminds us again and again that he is not sufficiently recognized; Jordan doubtless feels that he is recognized too much. Barkley, in fact, seems not so different from the laughing and imprudent rest of us. The new Sun, you could say, is a hero because he is so human -- overweight, gregarious, hotheaded, a 6-ft. 5-in. man who, through willpower alone, outjumps giants and outraces sprinters; Jordan is a hero because he is transcendent...