One type of therapy used in the study is body-weight-support treadmill training, in which a patient's weight is supported by a harness over a treadmill while therapists help move his legs.

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Robb has also been encouraged by the support he received from five-weight world champion Sugar Ray Leonard when the American ring legend visited Scotland last year.

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Speaking at the FT Sport Summit in London, Pound lent his weight in support of the 23-year-old athlete being cleared to compete in Beijing.

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President Barack Obama, who said during his 2008 campaign that marriage was "between a man and a woman, " in May declared his support for same-sex marriage, and the administration has now put its weight behind supporters of gay marriage before the Supreme Court.

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Weight Watchers had started a decade earlier offering AA-like support groups for membership fees.

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Because the code has been licensed under the Eclipse public license rather than the harder-core GPL, device manufacturers will be able to continue to tack on custom features and hardware support without open-sourcing it, which should make them less gun-shy about throwing weight behind the platform -- and considering how badly these guys need to get back into the spotlight, that's a good thing.

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People with on weight-loss journeys should have encouragement from friends, family or people in support groups or online communities, she said.

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