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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...
...workaday minor celebrities, this shift--their rightful positions on Hollywood Squares being usurped by nobodies from Nobodyville!--has been the equivalent of businesses exporting desirable factory jobs to the Third World. But now Hollywood's B, C and D lists are counterattacking with their own reality shows. In addition to Surreal Life--which also includes rapper MC Hammer, Motley Crue's Vince Neil and Beverly Hills 90210's Gabrielle Carteris--E! network's Star Dates sends where-are-they-now stars on blind dates with noncelebs, many of whom, natch, have show-biz aspirations of their own. ABC's reality...
...international air connection to the peninsula). The 1,207-km-long region was off-limits to most Russians, not to mention foreigners, during the cold war because it was the site of a nuclear-submarine base and military radar installations. Today nearly a third of Kamchatka is protected nature reserves, including five parks designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO...
...with Brussels over the pact's restrictions - may also have to answer. The program that President Jacques Chirac unveiled when standing for re-election last March assumed 3% growth over the next five years. Chirac told voters that such expansion would allow him to cut income taxes by a third, lower some corporate rates, and boost spending on police and defense. But if he keeps his promises, it will be impossible for France to toe Brussels' line. In the past, Chirac has had a major economic force pulling in his favor - French consumers, whose spending could qualify as patriotic...
...college fencing. Julian Rose, who went 3-0 in the epee against the Lions, is a World Championship veteran. Tim Hagermen and David Jakus are sick sabers who have more than kept themselves busy despite the inactivity—Hagermen was the third-highest American finisher at a recent Senior World Cup event, and Jakus competed in Hungary. Both sabers were recruited from the fencing hotbed of New York City, right beneath Columbia’s nose...