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When it comes to weight, my family is cruel even to their closest ones. After my first year of college, complete with typical bad eating habits—the freshmen fifteen accompanied me home for the start of summer—my mother, in her less-than-subtle manner, practically shamed me into my health club membership. After one summer back at home with Mom, whose zeal for raising our family on a fruit-and-vegetable-filled diet is notorious, I was fitter than ever. Still not the slimmest of students, I could confidently assert that my body mass index...
...class and region. The combination of double shifts, shrinking vacations, fear of boredom and competitive instincts conspires to clog our kids' summer just as much as the rest of the year. Even camp isn't likely to be about s'mores and spud anymore: there is math camp and weight camp and leadership camp, as though summer were about perfecting ourselves, when in fact the opposite may be true...
...Ralph Archbold hadn't been talked into playing Ben Franklin in a local summer production in Dearborn, Mich., when he was a 31-year-old professional photographer who looked nothing like the man, would his head have gone bald in just this way? Would he have gained this much weight, needed bifocals and developed a bad hip that required a cane? Is it possible that a person can so identify with someone else that he morphs into his likeness...
...themselves. "It was a tremendous growing experience," says Richard Hudson, 53, of Syracuse, N.Y. "You start really sharing your human weaknesses, and it is a challenge." He has already given scrapbooks to each of his two children, 27 and 24. Though Hudson realizes the contents carry no legal weight, he says they have begun to have an impact. "We've had a lot of insightful discussions," he says. "They caused a lot of emotions, tears and bonding." Still, Baines and others caution that ethical wills should not dredge up family skeletons. Says Baines: "I teach people not to reach...
...Percentage of low-birth-weight babies born, the highest level in more than 30 years...