Word: unfit
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...Alberto Fujimori's plummeting public image reached another low as the Peruvian Congress voted to charge the former President with abandonment of office and ban him from holding any other post for an additional 10 years. The Congress has already declared Fujimori morally unfit for the presidency, and the Attorney General's office is mulling criminal charges, which it would file in the Supreme Court. The measures won't have much effect on their intended target, however: Fujimori fled to Japan last November, obtained citizenship and has signaled no intention of returning to Peru...
...death from cardiovascular disease, while those who were merely overweight and not fit had a 50% increased risk. Since about 60% of U.S. men are overweight or obese, the potential public-health impact of not maintaining normal weight could be enormous. In addition, men who were both obese and unfit were five times (rather than three times, as stated in your story) as likely to die of cardiovascular disease as physically fit men of normal weight. MING WEI, M.D., M.P.H. Plano, Texas...
...racial gap in test scores is one of the most vexing problems in social science, in part because it opens the door to the whole creepy notion of eugenics. Eugenicists believe that the human species would advance more quickly if it discouraged reproduction among certain groups deemed unfit - say, those that score poorly on aptitude tests. It's worth noting that the SAT was designed by a psychology professor who became a leading member of the eugenics movement before denouncing it later in life...
...brokers. They viewed Estrada, who boasted about his middle-class origins and was proud of his capacious appetites, as something of a parvenu, an uncouth impostor in the palace. His clique of shady Chinese business cronies and provincial politicians was regarded as proof that Estrada was a second-rater, unfit to rule and certainly not one to act in the best interests of the Philippines. And they had their reasons to doubt his policies: Estrada's term in office had been an economic disaster. The Manila Stock Exchange had plummeted 6%, and the peso was trading at an all-time...
...this. They threatened to call Kenny Jones, the Moniteau County, Mo., sheriff whose wife and three deputies were killed in 1991 by James Johnson, the convicted killer whom White wanted to be granted a retrial. Even beyond that case, the Republicans are prepared to argue that White was unfit for the federal bench; they are threatening to dredge up his law-school grades, his bar exam, his record as a lawyer and even details of his family life to prove Ashcroft was right about White. "People who knew about Ronnie White were willing to leave a lot of this alone...