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Quotation of the Day for September 25, 2013"Costco as much as anything else is why the land of the free and the home of the brave is also the trough of the tub o' lard, our exceptionalism measurable by not only our G.D.P. but also our B.M.I. That's body mass index, and our bodies are indeed massive. "I don't blame Costco per se. I blame what it represents: an American obsession with size, with quantity, that manifests itself as surely in supermarkets and restaurants as it does on our highways. We drive minivans and sport utility vehicles; we rip into veritable feed bags of potato chips and wedge our steroidal Thanksgiving turkeys into refrigerators more capacious than some European cars. This doesn't redound to our benefit." - Frank Bruni, in Hard Truths About Our Soft Bodies. [http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/17/opinion/bruni-hard-truths-about-our-soft-bodies.html] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Sep. 19, 2013  |
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