"When I got to 200 pounds, I decided, well, 'Why don't I go for a weight that's a healthy weight range for my height, '" said Welch.

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Without the space to list age, height, weight and coloring, screenwriters aim for one original, defining detail.

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The name alone is enough to raise eyebrows, but wait until you see the special features: a biorhythm calculator, a fatness function that calculates a user's height-to-weight ratio, a calendar for keeping track of your menstrual cycle and a calorie-counting function.

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Carlisle coach Alan Jones continues to hammer home the message that a high level of fitness is essential for all members of the team whatever their height or weight.

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The overall correlation we arrived at between pay level and job satisfaction was just .15. (For comparison, the correlation between typical human height and weight is .44, and the correlation between IQ scores in identical twins is .86.) This suggests that within an organization, those who make more money are barely more satisfied than those who make much less.

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Specifically, 51 percent of parents did not understand that a child in the 10th percentile for height (meaning they are shorter than most of their peers) and 90th percentile for weight (meaning they weigh more than most of their peers) was overweight.

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