Bite Size News, March 16: Fat, Lazy, Stupid (etc) Edition

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  • Good news: You might be as fit as a rookie firefighter or EMT. Bad news: Most of them are overweight. [MedPage Today]
  • Some of former Speaker DiMasi's staff are still getting paid by the state for doing nothing. [Boston Globe]
  • A Brookline pre-teen's stupidity prevents her from jetting to L.A. on a MySpace promise of fame. [Boston Herald]
  • A grade-school Celtics fan struts his dance moves for Ellen DeGeneres. [Boston Channel]
  • Racist radio host Don Imus came to town for a St. Paddy's Day broadcast and threatened Jay Severin. [Boston Herald]
  • Darwinism thwarted again: A woman is saved after taking a shortcut over insufficiently frozen Walden Pond. [Lincoln Journal]
  • Buttonwood bisons' bum brownies are befouling Buzzards Bay. [Cape Cod Times]


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