Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...jeans have gone through competitive gymnastics, a year of inactivity and weight gain and the beginning of workouts with me. I slept with my blanket when I was a baby (although I only do so occasionally...
What did they talk about first? Food. From interviews conducted during the last week inside, it is clear that the Biospherians (who lost, on average, 13.5% of their weight) became obsessed with food -- with growing it, gathering it, preparing it, consuming it. One of them, Sally Silverstone, has published a cookbook called, appropriately, Eating In. The plan was that the Biospherians would grow their own abundant supplies of fruit and vegetables. But their garden was designed by the crew's doctor, Roy Walford, author of a book (The 120-Year Diet) that advocates longevity through an extremely low- calorie diet...
Neonatal care for infants weighing less than 1.5 lbs. can run to $1 million per child if they spend several months in an intensive-care unit. Moreover, very few live long enough to leave the hospital, and half of those who do are debilitated. Such low-weight babies, who make up only 3% of the 300,000 preemies born each year, would seem to be a bad cost-benefit risk. But Alan Fleischman, director of neonatology at the Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, New York, notes that 20 years ago, only 10% of infants born weighing under...
...Abouhalima's family was several cuts above the norm, which may have created an expectation in the $ young man that a better life was obtainable. His rebellion began in small ways. He started to smoke, but never once lit a cigarette in front of his stern father, a powerful weight lifter who would have disapproved. As a teenager, Abouhalima began to hang around with members of the outlawed al- Jama'a Islamiyya, or Islamic Group, which considered the blind Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman its spiritual guide...
...epilogue, the much-aged Newland and his grown-up son travel to Paris, and have a date to take tea with the Countess. Having been treated to Newland's grayed locks and liver-spotted face, one is absolutely dying to see how the Countess has held up under the weight of the years. One is foiled. Thus it is throughout: the film continually promises high drama, but high drama consistently fails to materialize...