It consists of a 560-pound (254 kg) square lithium-ion battery pack with a volume of 133 liters, comprising 336 prismatic cells.

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Jackie also was struggling with her weight, at one point hitting 64 kg on a 157-cm frame.

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Brief exposure to high levels of PCBs and dioxins may cause skin lesions and affect the liver (the tolerated daily intake for dioxin is about 1 picogram - one trillionth of a gram - per kg body weight).

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The source of contamination - an 80, 000-kg batch of fat that a Belgium company sold to feed mills supplying European farms - did not only contain dioxin.

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His sheer bulk -- weighing in at 120 kg as against 94 kg for Bolt -- was always going to be a barrier on the track, and he was persuaded to try a new challenge by Germany's national bobsled team coach Gerd Leopold.

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With his 169-cm height and solid 77-kg physique, he already looks like a linebacker.

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And we do mean hefty -- this laptop apparently tips the scales at 1.88 Kg, which puts it a touch over the four pound mark. 4.1 pounds certainly isn't shoulder busting, but it's a solid half a pound more than you'd expect from a machine of this size.

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Mr Hall said a piece he picked up - a quarter of the section - weighed about 15 lbs (6.8 kg), the equivalent of about three bricks.

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Three minutes later a second satellite, the 3, 743-pound (1, 698-kg) GE-5 television broadcast satellite for New Jersey-based GE American Communications, separated from the Ariane rocket.

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