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As noted in Takes this week, Americans these days are more accepting of overweight people than in the past. But will 2003 be the year when being chubby becomes downright hip?
Ever since 1998’s Million Pound March, the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (“fat is not a four-letter word”) has made strides. And news last week that Homer Simpson has joined such thin, athletic folks as Allen Iverson in promoting Reebok sneakers (“Mmm … Classic,” he says in new print ads) is another promising development.
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