Word: overweightness
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Ironically, Bo had seemed an unlikely prospect for a criminal career. While his two brothers, Tony and Darron, ran with tough gangs and had arrest records, he avoided violence. Overweight and suffering from asthma, Bo was a well-liked teenager who took school seriously. He jumped at the chance to ride buses to a predominantly white high school in Sepulveda. He was given a room by a white family so he would be close to his new school and able to take the grocery job nearby. Unlike most of his friends, he managed to graduate from high school...
...squeezed into my best pair of flesh-constraining Spandex, then pulled on my most inspiring t-shirt (the one that depicts Garfield saying, "I'm not overweight, I'm undertall,") and a sweatshirt. Palms sweating, I headed across Garden...
Twice as many women ages 30 to 64 as men think they are overweight. In one University of California study, 58% of 17-year-old girls said they were overweight; only 17% actually were...
Like sex, the videotaping experience ranges from disappointing to exciting. Mary and Tom, Chicago investment bankers who checked into a local hotel with just a video camera, were mortified by the way poor lighting and camera angles distorted their overweight bodies. Fred, a professor, and Nina, a schoolteacher, recorded themselves in a candlelit bubble bath, and wound up elated. The Manhattan couple, married 20 years, have filmed three more tub trysts, complete with strawberries and whipped cream...
...author is interested in everything: how the city's sewers worked, how marriages were arranged, and how the horsehair plumes in a soldier's helmet could be detached for storage. She has drawn maps and even portraits of her characters, and supplied an encyclopedic glossary. The result, though dangerously overweight, is airport fiction at its best...