Word: overweightness
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...overweight woman walked down a narrow hall into the center of her two-room apartment. The blue flames the leaping from the gas burners on the stove served as the source of heat for the whole room...
...seen them. In record stores, the "classical" section is usually separated from the rest of the store; it has a more serious decor, a more serious clientele, and more serious music playing in the background. Sometimes there are even serious video displays, banks of television screens showing overweight people galumphing about a stage and bellowing in a foreign language. The overall impression one gets is that classical music is a very serious affair...
...Financial World to kill his column. But magazine officials claim Crystal was let go largely as a result of some errors he made in evaluating executive pay packages. Whatever the reason, Crystal is not giving up. He's now prepared to purchase stock in companies he believes send out overweight paychecks. That would enable him to haunt proxy meetings and demand shareholder votes on compensation...
...last month's U.S. national championships in Orlando, Fla., Harding was several pounds overweight, and she sustained an ankle injury in practice. But with typical grit she stuck to her program, which includes a triple Axel, a 3 1/2-revolution trap of a jump that only Ito and she have landed in competition. In the short program she fell. In the long program, she tumbled again and lost any chance of catching Kerrigan. Was she foolhardy to try? Maybe, but she gave notice that, win or lose, she means business...
Americans are still best advised to stop smoking, cut their consumption of foods high in cholesterol and fats, especially the saturated kind, and start exercising. "I wouldn't want to see an overweight, short, bald smoker with high cholesterol saying, 'Well, I'm short and bald. I guess I'll just have to accept that I'm at risk,' " says Dr. Charles Hennekens of Harvard Medical School, co-author of last week's report regarding the impact of height. "And a man who is 6 ft. 1 in. and smokes has a far greater risk of heart attack than someone...