Toy Boys

IT'S NOT JUST BARBIE A study published in last week's International Journal of Eating Disorders found that popular male action figures like G.I. Joe have been popping the plastic steroids a little too zealously. The G.I. Joe of the 1960s had biceps equivalent to those of an average man, about 12 in. But the 1997 iteration, G.I. Joe Extreme, had biceps measuring 26 in. Poor Mark McGwire. His are a piddling 20.

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