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Step off the scales, America. You've got a new worry: body fat. Today fitness fanatics across the country are discovering what athletes and their trainers have long known: when it comes to fitness, what counts is not how much you weigh, but how much of you is fat. The FBI and the Secret Service as well as the Army and Navy routinely measure body fat in fitness evaluations. So do some local police and fire departments. At one health club in New York City, says Hair Stylist Kevin Mancuso, "instead of everyone competing to have the biggest build...
Judging the shape you' re in? What counts is not how much you weigh but how much is fat. -- At last, the exercise Laundromat...
...Public enemy number one today is the federal deficit," said the two-time presidential contender. "At no point [since the deficit problem began] has our government been willing to face and weigh the tough choices, to act resolutely to cut spending...
...means a lot to Bob Hopkins too. Bob is the favorite in the over-229-lb. class and is the only man to have beaten Moe. He is a plasterer who once played in the U.S.F.L. He used to weigh more than 305 lbs., which made him a bit sluggish in competition, so he dieted to a mere 275 for today's event. He has a menacing black beard that hides his face, ravaged at age 30. Bob used to have a problem with drugs and alcohol, or as he puts it, "They had a grip...
...Pope cannot hope to win Americans to his side one by one in person. It is the strength of his moral vision, clear cut and demanding, that he leaves for American Catholics to weigh. In their own consciences, in their own hearts and prayers, John Paul's success will have to be measured...