Word: trimly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...study shows that women who are overweight in their 70s have a significantly higher risk of developing the brain disorder by their late 80s--the first strong evidence to link the obesity epidemic to the growing incidence of Alzheimer's. It's also a good reason to stay trim. A 5-ft. 4in. woman who weighs 145 lbs. increases her Alzheimer's risk 36% with every 7 lbs. she gains. --By Sanjay Gupta...
Lightly tanned and galvanized by his daily workout, Cem Uzan, 42, is relaxing in a trim blue business suit at his swanky party headquarters in downtown Ankara. Behind him is a wall-length map of Turkey, lit up with red flags of towns and villages he has visited in his first year as a barnstorming politician. He is in an expansive mood. "I believe in certain values in life," he says. "I want to set an example of public service." Politics, in fact, is a welcome pursuit for Uzan, who is leader of the Youth Party. But he is also...
...renewed their wedding vows two years earlier. Two-thirds of the choir rearranged their schedules so they could come to sing, and the organist took the day off in order to be there to play. A college professor, a drama teacher and a fund manager helped the rector trim hedges; an elderly parishioner spent the night before the funeral freezing lemonade and ice rings because the day of the funeral was to be sweltering. "Betsy and Chris would do anything for other people, and it was mutual," observed Rev. Nick Knisely. "That's where the outpouring came from, and that...
...hate fat people. Or least I did, up until about six weeks ago. My utter annoyance with the obese seems—like obesity itself—to be inherited. Except for petite and pudgy me, everyone else in my immediate family is tall and exceedingly trim. And, as if our disgust with the overfed were genetically predetermined, we have all had run-ins. Take my brother, for example, who while spending the summer on his college campus at University of California at San Diego (a hub for summer teen overweight camps), found a cruel humor in luring...
...Venus Williams--ruling the game, the fashion industry is playing mixed doubles with the world of tennis. At the spring 2004 menswear shows in Milan last week, Gucci designer Tom Ford introduced a chic take on the tennis bag in crocodile and a Stan Smith-style sneaker with croc trim. At the menswear shows in Paris, meanwhile, Louis Vuitton featured tennis whites as a major theme. Over at Wimbledon, where tennis was actually being played, Venus Williams was serving up her new look on Centre Court: a Diane Von Furstenberg-designed Reebok tennis dress with corsetlike lacing up the back...