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...What happens is, you get fat, and that's precisely what we've done. In 1900 the average weight of a college-age male in the U.S. was 133 lb. (60 kg); the average woman was 122 lb. (55 kg). By 2000, men had plumped up to 166 lb. (75 kg) and women to 144 lb. (65 kg). And while the small increase in average height for men (women have remained the same) accounts for a bit of that, our eating habits are clearly responsible for most. Over the past 20 years in particular, we've stuffed ourselves like...
...parents'. "The more overweight you are, the worse all of these things will be for you," says acting U.S. Surgeon General Steven Galson. And, warns Seeley, the worse they are likely to stay: "When you're talking about morbidly obese kids, zero percent will grow up to be normal-weight adults...
...childhood obesity had leveled off. It's not certain if the plateau is a sign that public-awareness programs and improved menus in many school cafeterias are producing results or merely that some kind of saturation point has been reached, with most kids genetically susceptible to gaining too much weight having done so. "Whether this is meaningful data, we don't know yet," says Seeley. "But anyone who wants to stick a flag in this and declare victory is just crazy...
...fictional headquarters for the Daily Bugle in the recent Spider-Man movies. It has been a National Historic Landmark since 1989. Though the purchase is not quite as much of a shock as the Mitsubishi Group buying Rockefeller Center, the Flatiron's falling into foreign hands nevertheless carries symbolic weight and shows international investors taking advantage of the upheaval in the real estate market and the weakness of the U.S. dollar. The euro closed Monday...
...with a gleam of evil mischief in his eye. Ortega's wife, Rosario Murillo - who wears eccentric clothing, dangly jewelry, and talks about peace and love but has a reputation for being vindictive and Machiavellian - practically draws herself. "I draw her as a female version of Ortega, with less weight and lots more hair," said Guillen, who in his cartoons has dubbed her "La Chamuca," or devil woman - a moniker that's become a household nickname for the first lady...