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...Pierre Sabourin, a venture capitalist and former amateur hockey player, has been so successful at losing weight, having dropped 165 lbs. on a rice diet, that he wants to share his secrets with others. But at 435 lbs., he is still keenly aware how hard it is for a wide body to navigate the many narrow armchairs and undersize seat belts of daily life. So even as he works excitedly to promote his just opened weight-loss camp, The Living Center, in Durham, N.C., Sabourin, 43, is operating a complementary business. He sells hard-to-find products to other folks...
...Sabourin has set up shop at a profitable crossroads. Today 65% of U.S. adults are classified as overweight, up from 46% two decades ago. And nearly a third of adults are considered obese (say, 190 lbs. or more for someone 5 ft. 6 in.), up from 14% in 1980. Any way you look at it, heavy Americans represent a fast-growing market with special needs. Until recently the business world's primary response was to pitch diets, workouts and potions to those determined to melt off the pounds. The weight-loss market grew to about $40 billion last year, from...
...Austin, Texas, "but it seems like it's particularly devastating for some women." In fact, the airline industry has pretty much ignored the needs of the fat. Aside from catering to the widespread preference for king-size beds, hotels have also made minimal adaptations. Aware of this, entrepreneur Sabourin--who used to travel with 4-x-4 wooden blocks to prop up rickety hotel beds--sells vacation packages to resorts that qualify as fat friendly...
America West Airlines announced last week it will no longer allow children under 12 to fly unaccompanied on flights requiring connections because of three recent incidents in which children ended up at the wrong airports. I wonder if everyone--the public, the media and the airline--is overreacting. Jim Sabourin, vice president of America West, told me that in each case the airline knew quickly that the children were put on the wrong connecting flight, and immediately made arrangements to get them to the correct destination. The incidence of children being misdirected is rare; so far this year the Department...
...tires had been replaced and it was rolling on new rubber. Sam was still six seconds in the lead. By the time he whipped past the finish flag, he was 17.35 seconds in front of Jim Rathmann's Chiropractic Special (named after its sponsor, Chiropractor Ray Sabourin). He had careened around the 500-lap course in 3 hr. 41 min. 14.25 sec., an average of 135.601 m.p.h.-the fastest 500 on record...