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...where overweight activists share their experiences and advice. When a customer approaches a turnstile that is obviously too small, Disney employees move quietly to open wheelchair gates. They discreetly pass out seat-belt extenders on some rides and steer large folk away from others, like Indiana Jones, that might prove dangerous to them. The company also stocks scooters and wide electric wheelchairs. "Disney World may not be perfect, but it's as close to heaven as a fat person can get," says Wanda Sykes, 33, a health-care administrator from Atlanta who weighs 285 lbs. "I visited the old Spanish...
...Even though the two live in different states, today they keep in touch on a regular basis and know everything that is going on in each other's lives. "You realize as you get older that a good relationship with so much history means much more than trying to prove you're right," says Blanke, CEO of Life Designs Inc., a career-and life-consulting company in New York City. "And I feel so much better now that we're close again...
...some of these, there is an issue of grandfathering," admits Dr. Michael First, editor of DSM IV. "The onus is on the person who wants to change it to prove that we should do so." First also acknowledges that the A.P.A. does not subject every criterion to rigorous scientific testing, "for practical reasons of continuity." Which may be another way of saying some old-timers still bill sessions for "transvestic fetishists," and they don't want to lose the DSM stamp of approval needed for insurance reimbursement...
...more than 30 years Gilberto Gil has been one of the two biggest pop stars in Brazil - a man whose music is as powerful and transporting as it is popular. Now, as the country's Minister of Culture, he is ready to work behind the scenes. As if to prove it, he soaked up the adoration for just a few seconds on that makeshift stage before tucking himself discreetly behind the President. Gil, 60, knows that in today's new and optimistic Brazil, he's not the headline act. Lula is. "That's no problem," Gil says a few days...
...inspection process to be allowed to run its course. In Britain, Prime Minister Tony Blair sought to head off mounting disquiet in his own government and in the broader electorate over U.S. intentions. Blair insisted Monday that if allowed to proceed and escalate, the inspection process would eventually prove the case his own government and the Bush Administration have made against Saddam - and establish an incontrovertible argument, in the eyes of the UN, for military action...