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No more.
From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
No laughing matter, the regulations have economic consequences. For example, the water taxi Miss Pittsburgh could carry 72 passengers in 1999, but the number has been cut to 42, which translated into an $800 loss during three Steelers games alone for the boat’s owner.
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. . . the average weight of American men has increased from 166 pounds to 195 pounds, a 17.4 percent jump, and from 140 to 165 for women,* a 17.8 percent hike.
ABC reports
I did some arithmetic based on the first item:
Methinks something’s missing from my calculations.
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*And my mother used to fret about being a size 12.
