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Crash test dummy family

This crash test dummy family is getting an overweight uncle — to reflect America’s expanding waistlines

Global Scan

America’s rise in obesity isn’t just raising health alarms. It is challenging designers of all sorts of consumer products, including car safety experts, who are moving to a morbidly-obese crash test dummy. Meanwhile, in Russia, Apple’s gay CEO is under attack. France and Spain, however, seem more worried about clowns. Those stories and more in this weekend’s Global Scan.

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