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While they were happening, the '80s seemed so darned healthy. Joggers and bicyclists clogged the pathways. Exercise spas threw open their glass doors and mirrored chambers. Folks didn't just watch their weight, they also enrolled in diet movements, diet 12-step programs and diet franchises complete with celebrity TV endorsements and calorically correct prepackaged snacks, meals and desserts. Even the Christmas turkey seemed somehow leaner...
...when scientists finally put a representative sampling of Americans on the scale, the decade's secret scandal was uncovered: rather than getting healthy in the health-conscious '80s, Americans actually plumped out. It's not just that individuals got heavier as they got older, although they did: the average weight gain between ages 30 and 39 is 4 lbs. for men and 9 lbs. for women. It's that fortysomethings are now heavier than fortysomethings were 10 years ago, thirtysomethings now are heavier than thirtysomethings then, and so on down the demographic ladder...
...confrontational style of the 80s has not served us well," Demong said during a forum on the Square last month. "A cooperative process will help us produce better results...
Republican hostility towards the Public Broadcasting system is hardly new; both Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan's attempts to cripple it were thwarted by Congress in the '70s and '80s. And two years ago, Senator Bob Dole (R-Kan.) temporarily blocked funds to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, claiming that its programs had "a liberal bias...
...anyone else out there beginning to see a resemblance between the Patriots and the great San Francisco teams of the late-'80s? Just wondering...