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...recent phenomenon of Americans suing fast food makers for their glut of guts has largely been met with bitter scowls. According to a 2003 Gallup poll, 89 percent of the country opposes them, believing that—as Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., put it—fat people should “look in the mirror” for the source of their problems. However, the U.S. Congress is wrong in its attempts to ensure that the other 11 percent never has its day in court...
Back home in New Jersey, fat men didn't bellow songs in his honor. Back home women didn't stare while he shopped, kids didn't knock on his door for his signature, people didn't, as he says, consider their lives complete if they just got a whiff of his cologne. One day last summer Tim Howard was a 24-year-old from North Brunswick who happened to play soccer for a living; supremely gifted and almost wholly obscure. He could walk through his local mall wearing a jersey with his name stitched...
...begins coolly: "Some of these issues are very complicated and deserve more than a simplistic this or that," says the diplomat's son, the diligent student of policy and history practically from birth, the 19-year veteran of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the Davos regular with his Rolodex fat with kings and prime ministers and experts of all stripes. But as he speaks, Kerry heats up, grows loud, almost angry. His message shifts: Don't for a moment think all that worldliness means he has no convictions. Or that he is weak or a waffler or a political opportunist...
...downsizing trend is claiming a new victim: McDonald's Super Size fries. The company denies that its decision to phase out the 7-oz. serving of deep-fried potatoes--which packs a whopping 610 calories, 29 g of fat and 77 g of carbohydrates--was a reaction to Super Size Me, the soon-to-be-released documentary chronicling a month in the dietary life of director Morgan Spurlock. He says he gained 25 lbs. and saw his cholesterol rise 62 points after eating fast food three meals a day for 30 days. According to McDonald's, the decision to shrink...
Gorton, Dresner and Shumate jump at the offer--for the challenge, the glory and a fat pile of money--but there are catches. The thuggish Yeltsin cronies who hire them insist on total secrecy and keep them virtual prisoners in a hotel. They cannot meet the candidate, who is often ill, drunk or both. Most ominously, the aides press the consultants to let them know if Yeltsin has no chance, so they can "take steps"--which, we assume, will be more brutal than push polling...