Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...operation begins to remove the flowers from Kensington Palace, new questions are being asked about Diana's death (People Daily) ... An Indian flag covers Mother Teresa's body as her adopted country salutes the Calcutta nun (Reuters) ... The doctor who wrote the definitive book on Redux has denounced the weight-loss drug (TIME Daily) ... Diet pill problems notwithstanding, Americans are living longer (Reuters), especially middle-aged mothers (TIME Daily) ... And more of them are doing grocery shopping online ? which is expected to become a $60-$80 billion-a-year industry in the next decade (The Netly News...
NEWARK, N.J.: The doctor who championed the weight-loss drug Redux in his book "The Redux Revolution" has had a change of heart after learning the medication may have an adverse effect on the ticker. Dr. Sheldon Levine, whose book helped put the anti-fat drug on the map, said he will not prescribe it until future studies reassure him of its safety...
...easy to guess what might have inspired Clinton to lose weight, even at a time when his bum knee made exercise impossible. He knew he was probably going to spend part of August in a borrowed house on Martha's Vineyard, where he could well be caught in the sort of emerging-from-the-surf shot that might have induced a President like William Howard Taft to take his next vacation deep in the north woods, bundled up against the cold...
...other words, even as Americans are told that they could change their lives if they just lost that extra poundage, the public perception of Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich seems to have been unaffected by their weight loss. Clinton is still popular. Gingrich is still unpopular. As another American President once said, "Life is unfair." That President, of course, had his own vacation compound on the Cape and was slim to begin with...
DIED. FOREGO, 27, one of racing's hardiest geldings; by lethal injection after fracturing his right hind leg; in Lexington, Ky. Enormous at 17 hands high, Forego raced like a runaway freight train--and his trainers complained that he carried about as much weight. He won 34 of 57 races, most memorably the 1976 Marlboro Cup. Lugging the top weight of 137 lbs., Forego thundered past Honest Pleasure in a come-from-behind victory, below, that helped earn him his third title as Horse of the Year...