Its advertising slogan -- "If your pig eats one kilogram of Hope feed, he will grow by two" -- can be seen on signs nationwide.
Standing among bales of crushed plastic bottles and piles of books waiting to be recycled, Lau says that one kilogram of waste paper would have gotten about 18 cents this time last year.
Fans are Poles like Joanna Kosicka, a European Union official born in 1974 who reads "Marzi" to her 8-year-old son and recounts her own tales of waking at 4 a.m. to stand in line for one kilogram of sugar.
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The Czech State Veterinary Administration said that horse meat was found in one-kilogram (2.2 pound) packs of frozen meatballs made in Sweden and shipped to the Czech Republic for sale in Ikea stores there.
"In the last 10 years it's gotten very, very hard to find nuggets over a kilo, so this (5.5 kilogram) one is extremely rare, " says Kent.
The 70 kilogram, one meter long, aluminum quadruped might not look like much, but it can run, jump and rear on its back legs and signals major inroads in the effort to creating robots that can save human lives.
The Federal Communications Commission limits cell phone radio frequency energy emissions, called the specific absorption rate (SAR), at 1.6 watts per kilogram, as measured over one gram of tissue.
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One twist: pork bellies, which now cost 48 cents a kilogram more than lean hogs that sell at 141 cents a kilo.
Because of this, the actual International Prototype Kilogram (yes, there does only seem to be one in existence) is stored in a vault in Sevres, France, limiting the lay person's ability to determine the actual weight of a kilogram.
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