Her male companion was what you might call fat, or even obese, and he must have been more than thirty years older than her.

NEWYORKER: While the Women Are Sleeping

The autopsy video he showed next, of a man being sliced open and relieved of a thick layer of fat, was even more electrifying and repulsive.

NEWYORKER: The Operator

The G8 used to be for leaders of the main economies to chew the fat in an informal setting, without agendas or advisers, and he wants it to be more like that again.

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