men and women

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
>>What's interesting (if not surprising) is that while Americans, 
>>male or female, are on the average among the fattest of the world, 
>>American actors in Hollywood movies now display the best toned 
>>bodies of all movies of the world.
>
>Fat is a class issue. I've heard it said - and though I haven't 
>factchecked this, it sounds entirely right from what I've seen - 
>that there isn't a single fat CEO of a Fortune 500 company. And 
>contrast slender marathon runner Robert Rubin with the 300-lb steak 
>and wine for breakfast J.P. Morgan. Urban yuppies of both sexes are 
>generally fit; plumpies are rare.
>
>Doug

Right.  American workers are given fantasies of fit bodies by 
Hollywood, rather than high wages, national health care, & vacation 
days when they can exercise.

Yoshie

Postscript:

At 8:23 AM +0100 8/6/01, Daniel Davies wrote:
>  --- Brad DeLong <delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU> wrote: > >One minor point:
>Australia is a major shopping destination for rich
>>  >Asians, since it is closer than London or Paris or New York.
>>
>>  Not that much closer. Tokyo-Sydney is 4900 miles. Tokyo-London is 
>>5940 miles.
>
>Tokyo has better shopping than either London or Sydney, so my advice would be
>not to bother with the journey.
>
>dd

I don't know if Tokyo has better shopping than London & Sydney, but 
as far as the joy of grocery shopping is concerned, Japan easily 
beats the USA.  One would think that the least capitalism can do for 
us is to make grocery shopping fun.