Word: plump
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...Bulgaria and parts of modern Greece, Macedonia, Romania and Turkey before being conquered by the Romans. Last July, he was taking a break from the valley to explore an enormous ancient temple near the central village of Starosel. But when the 62-year-old archaeologist, a short, plump man known as Bulgaria's Indiana Jones, got word that looters had been spotted in the valley - at the site of a mid-5th century B.C. tomb near Kazanlak, 170 km east of Sofia - he dropped what he was doing and rushed to the scene. Whatever was in that tomb, Kitov...
Millions of pleasantly plump Americans were stepping a little lighter. A study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had just concluded that folks who are overweight but not obese are at no greater risk of dying prematurely than people of normal weight. You could almost hear the national sigh of relief in the newspaper articles, radio talk shows and monologues of late-night comedians that followed. "I can't tell you how happy this makes me," David Brooks wrote in the New York Times, which devoted a front-page story, an editorial and two Op-Ed pieces...
What the CDC scientists did not conclude--despite the many sound bites to the contrary--is that a little excess weight will help you live longer or that plump folks are any healthier. It's true that in the study there were slightly fewer deaths associated with people who were overweight than with the people of normal weight, but the numbers varied so little, says lead author Katherine Flegal, that the difference is not what scientists would call significant...
...first glance, the Museum of Fine Arts seems one of the least likely venues for cutting-edge indie concerts. Many cringe after imagining chest-high Bermuda blue-hairs dragging pants-wetting grandchildren through room after room of faded pictures of this or that aged, plump noblewoman...
...program winds down, these oddities are joined by more familiar forms. A ceramic camel carries an entire band of traveling minstrels, and a stylishly plump court lady wears an eclectic silk outfit, remarkably well preserved. The show comes at a fitting time. Today, inhabitants of the places that held these treasures tend to look back at the culture of their forbears as monolithic, and only now beset by tainting influences from abroad. But their ancestors knew differently. They managed their confusing times with grace and curiosity?and wandering among the pieces of what they left behind is a rare pleasure...