SO appropriate for our class discussion today (and every day) about using appearance as a judge of who people "really" are:
http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/03/21/from-sumo-wrestling-to-running-400-pound-man-completes-l-a-marathon/
mostly, this is awesome, and it'd be great if people could stop conflating obesity with a sedentary and generally unhealthy lifestyle and thinness with healthiness; it's just more evidence that you can be heavy and healthy or thin and unhealthy (as one commenter pointed out, how many sub-400 pound people didn't finish or even enter?). but my hope is that ultimately people will understand that idea so well that the fact of his weight wasn't even IN the headline. :)
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