BURGEONING BACKSIDES.

• Position: Overweight population - Brief Article

You've all heard the statistic: More than half the U.S. population is overweight. In order to accommodate these expanding backsides, seats are expanding, too. USA Today tells us that New York City subway officials have bowed to rider demand and ordered new cars without the bucketstyle 17.5-inch seats that weren't wide enough for most Big Apple bottoms. The smallest seats at the new fieldhouse for the Indiana Pacers are 21 inches wide, three inches more than the smallest in the team's old home. And the century-old Central...