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...found the 2002 farm bill--the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act--spent six times as much on subsidies for the state's top 20 farmers as on rural development programs for the 20 counties losing the most population. And the South's cotton and rice farmers get even fatter checks than Middle America's grain farmers, which is why Korth managed to persuade the Nebraska Farm Bureau to endorse limits on payments to rich farmers, even though the national Farm Bureau aggressively opposes them. "Wealth has a natural tendency to concentrate," says Chuck Hassebrook, the center's director...
...laudable mission, but will the shareholders grow fatter from it? "We were born with this health positioning. With the new Danone, I think we can say that 98% of total sales will be functional health and nutrition. It's very different from the competitors," says Riboud, 51, a skier and windsurfer...
Last year, an estimated 177,600 patients underwent bariatric surgery, a figure that's likely to grow as Americans get fatter and fatter. Though modern surgery techniques have become more sophisticated, less invasive and safer than in the past, the bariatric procedure still carries all the risks of any other operation. Patients have a .5% to 1% chance of death. The risk of gallstones goes up. Sometimes a second surgery is necessary. And all patients must be careful to make up for vitamin and mineral deficiencies. The surgery isn't for everyone; current guidelines recommend it as a last resort...
...reprising his rock hits but concentrating on the passionate crooning of songs made famous by people like Crosby ("White Christmas") and Sinatra ("My Way"), finally outing himself as rock's first - maybe last - romantic. Sequins and strutting aside, Elvis had become the singers he grew up listening to. Only fatter...
...became fate. We've seen it with our own eyes. Larry Bird made everyone around him better; Elvis made everyone around him fatter, to judge by photographs of the Memphis Mafia--entourage members expanding and contracting like a bellows in time with their boss...