November 7, 2008

By NICOLE CARTER Monday, October 27th 2008, 2:02 PM Manuel Uribe, who was once the world's heaviest man, tied the knot with girlfriend Claudia Sol




Manuel Uribe, who was once the world's heaviest man, tied the knot with girlfriend Claudia Solis Sunday in a white wedding in northen Mexico.

The forme Guinness world record-holder, who once weighed 1,230 pounds and has been bedridden for six years, was dressed all in white and reclined in a white canopy bed during the ceremony. The 43-year-old's wedding was attended by 400 guests.

"I have a wife and will form a new family and live a happy life," Uribe told reporters after the ceremony, which was closed to the press.

The couple have been dating nearly four years, and with the help of Solis, 38, Uribe has lost 550 pounds and is now under 700 pounds. The happy groom even resisted his own five-tier wedding cake.

"He didn't break his diet. His doctors are here and they are watching him very closely," said Uribe's mother, Orquedia Garza.

Congress Gets Ready for the Obama Era



Cabinet appointments and plum White House staff picks grab headlines during a transition. But the fate of the Obama presidency will be shaped just as much — if not more — by the messy behind-the-scenes process already under way in Washington: the reorganization of power on Capitol Hill. Three key elements to that process are still being sorted out: the final party-line composition of the Senate; the new GOP leadership in the House and how it reflects the new Republican mission and message; and the ability of House and Senate Democratic leaders to control crusading members who read Obama's win as a green light for a revolution.