Word: tiring
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...Nowadays, you don't have love handles, puppy fat or a spare tire-you're overweight or obese. And obesity is a disease. That's the term of choice, anyway, for health authorities such as the Australasian Society for the Study of Obesity, which says obesity "is a complex and multifactorial disease." But obesity-defined as a BMI of 30 or greater-is no more a disease than is cigarette smoking or sedentary living. People can be obese but healthy, just as they can be thin and sick. "It really doesn't make sense to call obesity a disease...
...seen loved ones lose their spouses, children lose their parents, or parents lose children. Occasionally now I drive by Ground Zero. I find it difficult to think of downtown Manhattan any other way than I see it in my head. There will always be that huge airplane tire lying in the street. There will always be the pieces of airplane lying amid tons of dust and rubble. We just clean up and move along with our lives, a bit wiser, with a bit more respect for each other...
...When tires do get damaged, they're repaired more often than they used to be. Mark Lyens, equipment manager for the Walsh Group, a national construction company with about 2,000 trucks, says this year he has overseen the repair of 50 tires--to save rather than shred them. Growing demand for such fixes has benefited tire-repair outfits like the Big Horn Tire Shop of Gillette, Wyo., which has more than 30 workers fixing about 70 tires at a time. Repair jobs there can take two days and cost from...
Increasingly, mine operators are trying to extend tire life by smoothing mine roads, reducing payloads and lowering speeds. If the shortage has had a positive effect, it's the reduction in tire-related accidents, says Chris Curfman, vice president of Caterpillar Global Mining, which ships just 5% of its trucks with tires. The rest are "naked," requiring customers to acquire tires from distributors...
...Chicago, president of the Western states division of the Purcell Tire & Rubber Co., says the shortage is the worst he has seen in his 44 years in the industry. Its scale hit home, Chicago says, when he saw a tire he had donated to a school--where it had been painted for use on the playground--arrive at his shop for repairs, having been harvested by a mining company...