On Mersea Island, to cut down on the weight of paper they have to carry, the biggest newsagent thoughtfully takes out all the advertising supplements at the shop and chucks them in the bin first.

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In describing it on Tuesday, Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller said it was about the size and weight of a pad of paper.

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Weight: 2.8 ounces (80 paper clips' worth of weight).

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They speak up passionately on behalf of the pigs penned in the industrial farms whose skins are paper thin and bleed at the slightest touch and whose legs snap under the weight of their steroid-gorged bodies.

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